Memorial Day Quotes Slideshow

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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