Remembrance Day Quotes

Life is precious, and war is a senseless waste. Yet, every year, thousands of soldiers are sent to far-off battlegrounds to fight these wars. With these Remembrance Day quotes, help people see reason beyond war and communal conflict.

• William Shakespeare
  Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
  
  
• H. L. Mencken
  Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
  
  
• Bill Vaughan
  We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
  
  
• Maya Angelou
  How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
  
  
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
  
  
• Mark Twain
  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.
  
  
• Thomas Dunn English
  But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
  
  
• Jeannette Rankin
  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
  
  
• Maya Angelou
  How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
  
  
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
  
  
• Gary Hart
  I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
  
  
• Eve Merriam
  I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
  
  
• G. K. Chesterton
  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.