Memorial Quotes - Page 5

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

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.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

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

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

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

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

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.

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

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.

The ones that love us never really leave us.

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.