Memorial Day Sayings

Honoring those who served and sacrificed — 481 sayings

We will sacrifice our souls and blood for you, Palestine!

— Yasser Arafat N/A
Biblical

The soul is a battlefield where the forces of life and death struggle for supremacy.

— Georg Simmel 1918
Biblical

The soul of man is a battlefield.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Unknown
Biblical

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880
Biblical

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth—diamond truth; and God is my 'right ha…

— Joseph Smith 1839
Biblical

We will continue to work patiently to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional stability. But if invasive outsiders and provocateurs touch us even slightly, we will not be forgiving in the least and sternly answer with a merciless, holy war…

— Kim Jong-un 2016
Biblical

The sound of the war drum has become the sound of Dharma, showing the people displays of heavenly chariots, elephants, balls of fire, and other divine forms.

— Ashoka the Great c. 260 BCE
Biblical

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professin…

— Martin Luther c. 1530s
Biblical

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

— Johannes Gutenberg c. 1450s
General

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

— Linus Pauling c. 1970s-1980s
General

In my experience the one form of foreign aid which is easy to get from big powers is arms and military training!

— Julius Nyerere Approx. 1960s-1970s (from 'Freedom and Socialism: 220')
General

We make war that we may live in peace.

— Aristotle c. 330 BCE
General

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

— Gloria Steinem pre-2014
General

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with the cunning of devils and all hell is enraged against me.

— Joseph Smith 1843
General

Gentleman, You Can't Fight In Here. It's The War Room!

— Stanley Kubrick 1964
General

Always remember that the best way to win a war is to avoid it.

— Pope Francis 2014
General

Before you can achieve anything, you must know what you want. And you must be prepared to sacrifice your comfort to get it.

— Alexander Graham Bell unknown
General

I often say I got out of the Navy in 1966, but I never left.

— Grace Hopper 1980s
General

Nothing can be so execrable as a government of military force.

— Thomas Jefferson 1801
General

I would rather go to war than marry.

— Elizabeth I Circa 1560s
General
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