“Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
“By this act, all ties with the dreadful past are broken, and my government will be proud to be able to march with you on to the inevitable victory.”
In a letter to General Eisenhower. Quoted in "World War II" - by Michael Armitage, Lord Lewin, Terry Charman - History - 2004 - Page 19
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Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: The Magnificent Defeat
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters
Choric Song, st. 4
The Lotos-Eaters (1832)
Context: Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?
Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence; ripen, fall and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
“The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Order of the Day (2 June 1944), a message to troops before the Normandy landings http://www.3ad.com/history/wwll/feature.pages/d.day.letters.htm, reported in Franklin Watts, Voices of History (1945), p. 260 <br class="br">1940s <br class="br">Context: Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!<br>You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.<br>Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.<br>But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!<br>I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle.<br>We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Section 1, paragraph 53, lines 11-13.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
“I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.”
Wilfred Thesiger book Arabian Sands
Source: Arabian Sands (1959), p. 20.