Memorial Quotes
Memorial 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 brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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.
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.
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
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.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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.
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.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
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.
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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.
