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Memorial Day Quotes on War and Peace

Saint Augustine (354-430)

The purpose of all war is peace.

<HR>Menachem Begin (1913-)

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Washington, D.C. (March 26, 1979)

<HR>Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Memorial Day Address (1884)

<HR>A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

Here dead lie we because we did not choose

To live and shame the land from which we sprung

. Life to be sure, is nothing much to lose;

But young men think it is, and we were young.

<HR>Bible, Isaiah

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

<HR>John Lennon (1940-1980)

When we say "War is over if you want it," we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace. :amen:

<HR>Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

On Marriage (1530)

<HR>Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

<HR>John Milton (1608-1674)

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

<HR>Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. Memoirs (Confieso Que He Vivido: Memorias) (1974)

<HR>William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead!

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage;

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

King Henry the Fifth (1598-1600), Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 1

<HR>UNESCO Constitution

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

<HR>Frederick Moore Vinson (1890-1953)

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Speech at Arlington National Cemetery (Memorial Day, 1945)

<HR>Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

(The Civil War) created in this country what had never existed before a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

Memorial Day Address (1915]