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.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
The peaceful peasant to the wars is prest,
The fields lie fallow in inglorious rest.
Would I had been disposer of thy stars,
Thou shouldst have had thy wish, and died in wars.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Europe needs an army to fight the resource wars of the twenty-first century.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.