The first step toward winning the war on truth is to accept that we are in one.
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.
War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.
War, they say, is just business conducted through other means.
“It is no small thing, Major, to be lost in a blizzard in the night skies over war-torn Europe.”
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young.
It remains one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of the war.
War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.
Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,
of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.
I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.
But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.