Let no one ever, from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war.
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.
The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.
The fundamental of war has always been dehumanizing the enemy, seeing him as a soulless animal.
War puts burdens on people without caring whether they are ready for them or not.