Memorial Day Quotes Slideshow

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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

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
-Joseph Campbell

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

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
-William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
-Daniel Webster

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
-William Cullen Bryant

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.
-Aaron Kilbourn

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
-Muhammad

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

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

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
-Maya Angelou

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

For love of country they accepted death...
-James A. Garfield

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

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

The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
-Randy Vader

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
-From a headstone in Ireland

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
-Francis A. Walker

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