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.
Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.
The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishing Jewish influence throughout the world.
"Peace is not simply the absence of war; it is the presence of justice, equality, and opportunity."
You don’t have to suffer war injuries to understand how tough life can be.