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 Civil War, like most wars, was a bad time for religious skeptics.
Africa must declare an end to the era of self-inflicted wars and conflicts.
No matter what it takes, we will win this war against terror.
Woe to those who began this war, if they were not in bitter earnest.
Stephen was moved by the thought of his fellow countrymen fighting this foreign war.
Saladin was a man of keen intelligence. He was vigorous in war and unusually generous.
His immediate impression had been that here was a ward heeler in a Charvet tie.
You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king.