Quotes on Remembrance Day

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.

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

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

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

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.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

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.