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.
The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.
In global warming and pollution we eclipse, in lies and wars to nuclear apocalypse
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
Ever since our enemies have refused to listen to and obey our Führer, the whole war has gone badly.
Krishna showing his vishvarupa universal form to Arjuna before the Kurukshetra War.
The United States should not be involved in fighting nuclear-armed Israel’s war with Iran.
To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.
How many more will have to die for this war against the poor to be over?
“Meat, potato, something green to ward off scurvy, and I am a happy man.”