Memorial Day Quotes

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Memorial Day Quotes & Sayings


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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