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.
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
England in all her wars has always gained one battle - the last!
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.