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.
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war.
"Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War."
We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
War is not popular. People get killed, and body bags end up coming back.
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.
How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?