Memorial Day Quotes - Page 8

• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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• We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Gratitude, Veterans Day

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• I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

  Scott Raab

  Summer, Uncles, Growing Up

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

  Barack Obama

  Memories, Hero, Heart

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• At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Fashion, America

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• I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

  James Cromwell

  War, Son, Men

  "James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Courage

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• Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Summer, Dad, Real

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• Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

  Jack Straw

  Holocaust, Community, Political

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• There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

  Michael Ignatieff

  America, Feelings, Patriotism

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• Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

  Courteney Cox

  Past, Men, Forgotten

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• Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

  Gale Harold

  Hero, Mean, Forget

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• This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, Determination, Unique

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1974”, p.457, Best Books on

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• We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth

  John McCain

  Thinking, Trying, Serious

  "McCain promises to remove responsible terrorists", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

  John McCain

  Enemy, May, Mercy

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• One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Order, Doe

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• The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

  Tom DeLay

  War, Enemy, Victory

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports, Military

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.140

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• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

  Hervey Allen

  Lying, Heart, Waiting

  Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Adversity, Zest

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Real, War, Died

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• When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  William Halsey

  Military, War, Bad Ass

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• It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Gettysburg

  Attributed; after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862

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