Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.