Memorial Day Quotes

Memorial Day Quote of the day

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

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 cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

In valor there is hope.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

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

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Love for one's country is part of faith.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

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'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.