Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
War without fire is worth nothing—like sausages without mustard.
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.