War Dead Quotes

War is about dead people.

— Scott Ritter

I war not with the dead.

— Homer

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

— Anonymous

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

— Joseph Heller

“During pre-industrial warfare more than 90 percent of war dead were killed by starvation, cold and disease rather than by weapons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

To truly honor our war dead, we must rededicate ourselves to the cause they sacrificed for freedom and democracy.

— Tom Suozzi

America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.

— Linda Colley

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

— James A. Garfield

“Dead soldiers along the turnpike at Antietam. Antietam was the first battle in which war dead were photographed and made publicly available,…

— Charles River Editors

Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Outside the school's walls the Swinging Sixties are in full cry, but inside them the band of Empire plays on. Twice-daily chapel…

— John le Carré

It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel…

— Chris Hayes

“I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is…

— Eric Greitens

“Victoria Park looks like every other inner-city park in every other city in Canada; a large and handsome memorial to the war…

— Gail Bowen

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner…

— Katherine Paterson

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long…

— Alice Walker

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker

As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost…

— Keith Olbermann