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.
People not only live by symbols, but die by them, as wars of religion and nationalism attest.
It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939.
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
Those who would wage war successfully must not wait upon events but anticipate them.
Beware, said I, lest, seeking to be rid of war, you find a master.
Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides.
Washington's furious assault on a poor peasant society had little to do with its wars in the region.
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.