Memorial Day Day Quotes
Collection of top 85 famous quotes about Memorial Day Day
Memorial Day Day Quotes & Sayings
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
— George William Curtis
"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
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
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
Their silent wounds have speechMore eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen. — William Robert Woodman
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
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
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
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 greenWe 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
We cherish too, the Poppy redThat 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
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
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
