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 felt like I was drowning and felt like with every breath I was waging a war against myself
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
War without fire is worth nothing—like sausages without mustard.
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice.
The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.