War itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
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.
He didn’t doubt there would be a next war; there would always be a next war.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
The American flag has been forced to retire. This is intolerable.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
Death is free from the restraint of Fortune; the earth takes everything which it has brought forth.