Memorial Day Sayings And Quotes

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“They saw their injured country‘s woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
– Philip Freneau

“But fame is theirs – and future days
On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell – when cold neglect is dead -
These for their country fought and bled.”
– Philip Freneau

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

“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

“Spirit, that made those heroes dare to die, and leave their children free; Bid Time and Nature gently spare the shaft we raise to them and thee.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn

“The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.”
– Randy Vader

“Happy Memorial Day! I give thanks to all the veterans that served our country. They all should get the honor that they deserve because they been through it all, they fought for our country when they had no choice but to do it and some of them lost their lives trying to protect our country. So for that I gives thanks to all the veterans.”
– Rasheed Bryant

“Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead!
Laurels and roses on their graves to-day,
Lilies and laurels over them we lay,
And violets o’er each unforgotten head.”
– Richard Hovey, The Call of the Bugles

“Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause
Of justice absolute ‘twixt man and man.”
– Richard Watson Gilder

“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

“There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.”
– Robert Charles Winthrop

“These heroes are dead. They died for liberty – they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars – they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
– Robert Reich

“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

“All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“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

“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.”
– S. Weir Mitchell

“These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.”
– Schuyler Colfax

“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.”
– Silar Weir Mitchell, Herndon

“Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping Of Nature’s kind, fostering care, Are blooming, our heroes are sleeping, And peace broods perennial there.”
– Silas Wier Mitchell, Those Rebel Flags

“Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth…”
– Sir Thomas Moore

“Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o’er.”
– Sir Walter Scott

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

“Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.”
– Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right?
He’s dead alone who lacks her light!l”
– Thomas Campbel

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
– Thomas Campbell

“Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right? He’s dead alone who lacks her light!”
– Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.”
– Thomas Campbell, Stanzas

“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

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