What new thing then is it for a man to die, whose whole life is nothing else but a journey to death?
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.
Any one may take life from man, but no one death; a thousand gates stand open to it.
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.