Memorial Day Quotes: top 85 famous quotes about Memorial Day

Memorial Day Quotes & Sayings

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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. — George William Curtis

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. — Todd Stocker

"Dead upon the field of glory,"
Hero fit for song and story. — John R. Thompson

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is important that we remember.
It is vital we do more than just remember. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America. — Michael Wilbon

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. — Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers

Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me — Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

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

Ah! never shall the land forget. — William C. Bryant

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten! — Courteney Cox

The average American is nothing if not patriotic. — Herbert Croly

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. — Minot Judson Savage

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. — Alexander Smith

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. — Rupert Brooke

Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't get to. It's important. — Karl Welzein

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war. — Richard M. Nixon

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! — Thomas William Parsons

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't — John McCain

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 Rodman Drake

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Schuyler Colfax

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. — William Shakespeare

All gave some, Some gave all. — Billy Ray Cyrus

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor. — Paul Tsongas

No day shall erase you from the memory of time — Virgil

Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen. — William Robert Woodman

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces. — Hervey Allen

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. — Nick Lampson

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama

Monday, May 27: Memorial Day was sunny and warm. — Walter Isaacson

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. — Robert Charles Winthrop

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ... — Thomas Moore

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

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten. — Jim Ramstad

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

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. — Walter Scott

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. — Michael Ignatieff

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave — Elijah Muhammad

Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly? — George Henry Boker

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do. — Christopher Gadsden

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

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie. — Brian Spellman

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. — Robert E.Lee

Love for one's country is part of faith. — Muhammad

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. — Charles Sangster

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never wish a veteran "Happy" Memorial Day. — Rick DeStefanis

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day! — Nathan East

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man. — Richard Watson Gilder

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country. — Zebulon Pike

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. — Pink

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies. — Moina Michael

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. — Jeff Miller

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

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor. — George H. W. Bush

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns. — Richelle E. Goodrich

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something. — Criss Jami

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 — Niccolo Machiavelli

Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images, that we might once more see their faces and pass along a tearful "I miss you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! — Alexander Henry

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. — Frank Knox

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the love of country they accepted death. — James A. Garfield

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. — Will Carleton

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight. — Rupert Hughes

On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell