War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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.
Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
They [photographs of war victims] create the illusion of consensus.
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
The whole reason of this War is because the Germans have no sense of humor.
Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
Only thing worse than fighting a war and winning is fighting a war and losing.