A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
They’d kill him or he’d kill them. War reduced everything to a brutal simplicity.
The Essence of War is Violence. Moderation in War is Imbecility.
From the very jaws of death I have escaped to this condition.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
And if there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.