Famous Quotes

"It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades."

Paddy Chayefsky on Memorialday

More quotes about Memorialday

• "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

  John F. Kennedy on Memorialday

• "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

  Mark Twain on Memorialday

• "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

  George Washington on Memorialday

• "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

  James A. Baldwin on Memorialday

• "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

  George William Curtis on Memorialday

More quotes by Paddy Chayefsky

• "Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work."

• "Television is democracy at its ugliest."

• "Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work."