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.
No kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
If the President had his way, we’d have a nuclear war every week.
Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war.
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!
Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.
NATO should have disbanded after the Cold War, just as the Warsaw Pact did.
I am she who gave you so much war and completed my day before evening.