Powerful Remembrance Day Quotes to Share on November 11: Armistice is Latin for to stand (still) arms. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918. To this day the United Kingdom mark Armistice Day around with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. Curated in this post are the Best Remembrance Quote Remembrance Memorial Day From Famous People.
Short Remembrance Day Quotes
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” ― Maya Angelou
“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: “Mother, what was war?”” ― Eve Merriam
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” ― George Canning
“Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” ― Jimmy Carter
Remembrance Quote Memorial Day
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” ― Jimmy Carter
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” ― Elmer Davis
“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
“Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.” ― Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley
“How important it is for us to recognise and celebrate our heroes and she-roes.” ― Harold Nicolson, British delegate to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.” ― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ― John F. Kennedy
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” ― Maya Angelou
“The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” ― Jeff Miller
“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
“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
Powerful Armistice Day Quotes
“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.” ― Rudyard Kipling
“All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.” ― Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.” ― Rudyard Kipl ing, The Old Issue
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” ― John Maxwell Edmonds
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.” ― Dick Cheney
“We shall want you and miss you but with all our might and main / we shall cheer you, thank you, kiss you when you come back again.” ― Paul Rubens, Your King and Country Need You
“They shall grow not 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.” ― Laurence Binyon, For The Fallen
“All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“You’d have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.” ― Jim Davis
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” ― Cynthia Ozick
“Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.” ― Pete Hegseth
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Valentine’s Day is like Armistice Day – you declare a truce.” ― Milton Berle
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.” ― Arthur Koestler