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.
If you could make people with ten-point-higher IQs, we'd probably have fewer wars.
Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.
Perhaps the most recurring and paradoxical trigger of change in human society has been war.
The Russian command knew that by winning the battle of Kursk Russia had, in effect, won the war.
Death comes in its own time, in its own way.
Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
I lead no armies, Warder. I command nothing save myself, and not always that.
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.
War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.