Remembrance Day Quotes

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  • But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

    Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
  • When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

    George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26
  • One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

    "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
  • All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

    Years   Remembrance   Age  
    "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)
  • Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

  • In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

    Dream   War   Gun  
    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

    Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions
  • The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

    Gun   Singing   Poppies  
    'In Flanders Fields' (1915)
  • A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

    George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  • I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  • In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation
  • And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  • Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

    'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19
  • Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

    Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
  • Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
  • Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

    Fall   Hands   Quarrels  
  • A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

  • We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

    Lying   Sunset   Dawn  
    John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.20, Dundurn
  • Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

    Grief   People   Giving  
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

    Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238
  • The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

  • The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  • Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

  • Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

    Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
  • They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

    Death   Morning   Years  
    "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)
  • In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

    Blow   Gun   Sky  
    Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"
  • It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

    Time   Pain   Get Well  
    Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”
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