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.
Armaments and wars, usually financed by budget deficits, are also a source of this kind of profits.
In war, the dead people don't cry. The ones who are still alive do.
This is not a war. It is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.