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.
Human war ... has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.
The Chilean Armed Forces has declared war against the Chilean People…
Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.
Confrontation is the road to war, destruction and end of civilization.