Memorial Day Sayings

War is a game played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Without a people's army, the people have nothing.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Let us wage war against ignorance, for it is the greatest enemy.

It is better to have one lion at the head of an army of sheep, than one sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is not the number of soldiers, but the quality of their spirit that brings victory.

War is a crime, but it is a necessary crime.

A revolution is a war to the death between the past and the future.

I am a man of peace, but I am also a man of war when it is necessary to defend my country.

The world today is a battlefield where the forces of progress and reaction are constantly clashing.

When you have a revolutionary army, you have everything.

The people are like water, and the army is like fish. If the water is clean, the fish will thrive.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

My choice in 1944 was not my own. I was drafted. It was just as much a draft as if I had been drafted into the Army.

I'm not a politician by trade. I'm a farmer and a soldier and a politician by necessity.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

You can't have a great nation without a great army.

War is a terrible thing, but it is sometimes necessary.