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.
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.
Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death.
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
War is righteous or unrighteous according as it is opportune or inopportune.
Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.