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.
"Leave him alone. He has already met his judge. I wage war on the living, not the dead."
This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.
Many evils, no doubt, were produced by the civil war. They were the price of our liberty.
He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.
He (Patton) was tough. War is tough. Leaders have to be tough.