Memorial Weekend Quotes

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

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?

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

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.

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.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

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

If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

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

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

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

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

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

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

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

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

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.