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.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
As a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches, she has a good rite tew them.
Two things greater than all things are,
The first is Love, and the second War.
Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.