Carl Sandburg Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, War, Giving

  The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.

• What if they gave a war and nobody came?

  Carl Sandburg

  War, What If, International Peace

• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Years, Two

  "Grass" l. 7 (1918)

• Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Faith, War, Men

• The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Forever, What If

• The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
  Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
  Red footprints wrote on the snow...

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Wind, Feet

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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