The real war is within us. History is a symptom of our disease.
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.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
What if they gave a war and no one came? Then the war will come to you.
You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.
What would Lincoln have been without the Civil War? Just another railroad lawyer!
The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
Unsparing as the scourge of war,
Blasts follow blasts, and groves dismantled roar.
Two things greater
Than all things are;
And the first is love
And the second is war.