Happy Memorial Day

Some incredible quotes, with a couple exceptions.(From Atomic email)

"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes." -- Douglas MacArthur

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

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -- John F. Kennedy

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." -- George McGovern

"People don't start wars, governments do." -- Ronald Reagan

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy." -- Tony Benn

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save." -- Brooks Atkinson

"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

"War is what happens when language fails." -- Margaret Atwood

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -- George W. Bush

"The solution to Iraq -- an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself -- is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad." -- George W. Bush

"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." -- George Santayana