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.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
“The army,” says a Moslem historian, with charming clarity, “is the source and means of government.”
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
I shall find one.
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.