Memorial Day Quotes - Page 3

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

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

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

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

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

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

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

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

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

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

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

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

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Love for one's country is part of faith.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.