Memorial Day Quotes - Page 5

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.

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.

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.

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

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

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

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

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

In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

For love of country, they accepted death.