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 calls for strategy: valour is less praiseworthy in a commander.
Those who refuse to accept the rulings of our courts are at war with the Constitution.
Russians don’t wage war. We’re trying to preserve infrastructure and human lives.
Professional football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
"Women are the first victims of war, but they are the one and only key to peace."
Bello carpe rosas, laeta arripe lilia pace.
Pluck roses for war, for peace the smiling lily!
Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.