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.
I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
War arises from both sides feeling they have a hope of victory.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Love calls to war;
Sighs his alarms,
Lips his swords are,
The field his arms.
It takes all nations to keep the peace, but it only takes one to start a war.