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.
Building a gazebo in the middle of the civil war, that'd be like doing stand-up comedy now.
Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?
Life is suffering. Life is war, and sacrifice. Life is victory.
Compulsory military training is conducive to waging wars rather than to the maintenance of peace.
One of the most revealing things about a country is the way it takes the threat of war.
That is precisely what agreements are for: so that hatred won't become war.
As long as there are nation-states, there will be war, tension and national enmity.