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.
War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.
Migrants are human ammunition used in a war bigger than us and them.
Charles understood better than his father or his adversary that the chief material of war was money.
So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war.
It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither.
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
There is an undeclared Cold War underway now in the IT sector.
In our view, all-out war promises the least success in achieving the objectives we have outlined.
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.