Memorial Quotes

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

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

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.

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.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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

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

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

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

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

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.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

For love of country, they accepted death.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.