Memorial Day Sayings

Honoring those who served and sacrificed — 481 sayings

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the American people.

— Woodrow Wilson Circa 1919
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An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

— Comte de Saint-Germain 18th century (attributed)
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We must purify the party, the army and the people.

— Pol Pot 1977
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We are not afraid of economic sanctions. We are not afraid of military intervention.

— Ayatollah Khomeini 1980
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We must be good at building a strong army.

— Xi Jinping 2010
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I’m going to be so good at the military, your head will spin.

— Donald Trump 2016
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To a priest, I would say: begone! To a soldier, I would say: come!

— Garibaldi 1860s
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of every one against every one.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
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A prince must have no other object, no other thought, nor take anything else for his art, but war and its orders and discipline.

— Machiavelli 1532
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

— Montesquieu 1734
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The trade of governing has always been an alliance of kings, priests, and soldiers.

— Thomas Paine 1792
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The American Revolution was a war of principles, and not of property.

— Thomas Paine 1778
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I'm a melancholic warrior for justice.

— Cornel West 2010
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You have to be willing to sacrifice for what you believe in.

— Jordan Peterson 2017
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No army can stop an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo 1877
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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

— Stephen King 1980
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For what can war but acts of war produce? And what can acts of war but wars breed?

— John Milton 1667
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I'm a soldier. I'm a warrior. I'm a survivor.

— Tupac Shakur 1996
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