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.
...dangers are arising on all sides which could precipitate a war with the Africans.
Lincoln was the only president in American history whose administration was bounded by war.
The Rhineland liberated from Prussia or eternal war. The choice is ours.
This isn't your war... It’s Putin’s war for power and money.
There may be no other Lebanese but you who wants civil war in Lebanon. Do not threaten us with war.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future.
Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.