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.
It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated.
“This means war. And who suffers most if powerful families go to war?”
“Everyone else but them.”
We need to draw the right lessons from the recent global challenges, wars and crises.
The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over.
And after we think about it, then there will be nuclear war.
The only war worse than one that’s intended is one that’s unintended.
To win, you've got to plan carefully and then make war with the speed of lightning.
"It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it."
A man of keen intelligence, vigorous in war, and unusually generous.