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.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war.
It is the thing protected, not the instrument of protection, that involves you in war.
But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is a war.
I told them that in Qur'an and in Arabic language jihad does not mean war.
You do not need chariots and horsemen, harps and war-horns, to make history interesting.
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.