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.
To my mind, the very assumption of “natural rights” is at war with evolution.
My life began with the First World War and ever since has been a continual struggle.
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
I want there to be no war. We are all humans. We were all born to live a worthy life.
I have a dream. I have only one dream. I'm dreaming of a world without war.
I would like to see an end to wars and women presidents who would better develop our continent.
A crown of olives on his helm he had,
As if in peace and war he were adrad.
In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.