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.
Literary epochs come and go but this wave seems to have frozen in the cold war.
Indeed the judiciary is a critical component in the war against corruption.
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless with a terrible fury all its own.
Rightists do not represent humanity,they cause division and incitement to civil war.
The war's red flames,
Charging Tarleton, proud Cornwallis, navies moving on the James.
After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobles by her scars.
The winning of the war is the only question before us. Nothing else matters.
Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman,
Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land."
It is here that your war, it is here that you have to win it.
We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.