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.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto.
You are offensive...because this page has a sword which I chose to say is not a sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword...if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
But with our sword we wiped away the blot.
I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion
I would have made them skip.
Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword
And won thy love doing thee injuries.
"Return with what speed you may, and let our swords hereafter shine together!"
"Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped a sword-hilt."
"Come!" said Aragorn. "This is the hour when we draw swords together!"