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.
War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.
As always, war had lowered the level of American tolerance for any kind of dissent.
That man Grant will fight us everyday and every hour until the end of the war.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
Wars, and the administration of public affairs, are the principal objects of history.