Memorable Memorial Day Quotes

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"Their sacrifice will never be forgotten."
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"Freedom isn't free."
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"We will remember every veteran's sacrifice."
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"All gave some, some gave all."
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"Honoring their courage and sacrifices."
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"A hero is someone who has given their life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"Freedom lies in being bold."
Robert Frost
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it."
Dan Millman
"We can't forget what Memorial Day is all about."
Ronald Reagan
"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay."
Barack Obama
"Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, it's honoring those who lost their lives."
Nate Penn
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
"Heroism is not only in the man but in the occasion."
Calvin Coolidge
"They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraved on honor's bright crest."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men."
Minot J. Savage
"The price of freedom is visible here today."
Bill Clinton
"Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."
Bob Marley
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain
"Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans; it's honoring those who lost their lives."
Unknown
"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it... it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it."
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"The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-enhancing values."
Andrew Bernstein
"For love of country, they accepted death."
James A. Garfield
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
G.K. Chesterton
"Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day."
Charles B. Rangel
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
"They fell, but o'er their glorious grave floats free the banner of the cause they died to save."
Francis Marion Crawford
"The American flag does not fly because the wind moves it... it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it."
Unknown
"Freedom never more than one generation away from extinction."
Ronald Reagan
"The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem."
Aaron Kilbourn
"America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago."
Steve Buyer
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country."
Nick Lampson
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices."
Harry S. Truman
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men."
Minot J. Savage
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Adlai Stevenson II
"We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them."
Francis A. Walker
"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."
Robin Hayes
"The brave men and women who gave their lives to our country were real heroes. They sacrificed everything for the common good and for the freedom of others."
Judd Gregg
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
Elmer Davis
"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."
Eric Burdon
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
John F. Kennedy
"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice."
Barack Obama
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
Billy Graham
"May we never forget freedom isn't free."
Unknown
"In memory of many, in honor of all."
Unknown
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
Jeff Miller
"Home of the free, because of the brave."
Unknown
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism."
Bob Riley
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it."
Unknown
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
Benjamin Disraeli
"America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels."
Claudia Pemberton
"We don't know them all, but we owe them all."
Unknown
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"For love of country they accepted death."
James A. Garfield
"Land of the free, because of the brave."
Unknown
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it."
John F. Kennedy
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy
"Here rests in honored glory a comrade known but to God."
Inscription at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
George S. Patton
"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
Maya Angelou
"On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!"
Thomas William Parsons
"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies from the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it."
Unknown
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
Calvin Coolidge
"Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours."
Wallace Bruce
"The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
Jeff Miller
"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays."
Albion W. Tourgee
"True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet shall their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."
Daniel Webster
"In the aftermath of war, the spirit of national pride unites us, resonating with all its characteristics, even the worst ones."
Volker Braun
"War is only a dirty episode in human history, but it is decisive."
David Bell
"Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of his own feelings."
Ella Fitzgerald
"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our purely American holidays."
Theodore Roosevelt
"While we can never achieve full equality, honoring the sacrifices of those who gave their lives for it is the least we can do."
Brad Henry
"Have respect for those who have died for it, the freedom they provide as citizens of the United States."
Unknown
"Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."
Coretta Scott King
"And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave."
Joseph Drake
"Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead."
Will Carleton
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
Barack Obama
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
Ronald Reagan
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