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.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Neither treason, nor semi-treason: the war. Nothing but the war.
I do not know whether war is an interlude in peace, or whether peace is an interlude in war.
Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!