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.
I want to look into myself, look at myself, delve into the assumptions I had before the war.
If there had been no war, perhaps I would have already discovered a lot by now.
When we are determined upon war, we should carry it on vigorously and without trifling.
In global regime of compassion and tolerance, no war is possible.
It will be a war of infrastructure, and in this sphere, we have many vulnerabilities.
I don't believe in violence and war is not the solution to the problems that face this country.
It seemed to us the sinister reversion to the war system would be at the cost of democracy.