Friedrich St. Florian Quotes

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

I'm glad I never went to war.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

You come home when the war is won.

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.

We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.

I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

People like to talk about war.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.