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.
If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus.
Good leadership can mean the difference between war and peace, between development and stagnation.
Anti-communism has been the U.S.'s powerful pro-war tool since 1945.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
I look forward to a future when acts of war shall be formally outlawed as between civilized peoples.