Memorial Quotes - Page 2

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

In valor there is hope.

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

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

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

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

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.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

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.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

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 am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.