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.
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
The art of war, which I take to be the highest perfection of human knowledge.
"Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it."
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.
Blair, don't send our young prince to your catastrophic illegal war to make it look plausible.
Citizens of Israel, we are at war – not in an operation, not in rounds – at war.