Ward: "The victory over all the afflictions that befall you, is, to keep silence."
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.
Ward: "If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live."
Ward: "If you are silent, you will have peace wherever you live."
The war on our bodies as women must take first priority in this continent
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?
War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)