“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”
Robert E. Lee
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’ “
Eve Merriam
From here.
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
José Narosky
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
Dick Cheney
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
G.K. Chesterton
