Memorial Day Quotes - Page 5

• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• They saw their injured country's woe.

  Philip Freneau

  Country, Woe, Saws

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• And I'm proud to be an American,
  Where at least I know I'm free,
  And I won't forget the men who died,
  Who gave that right to me
  And I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,
  Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,
  God bless the USA

  Lee Greenwood

  Men, Land, Usa

  "Song: "God Bless the U.S.A."". 1984.

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• 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

  Lonely, Military, Blow

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Land, Remembrance, Tears

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

  Henry Ford

  Uplifting, America, Problem

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• On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

  Danica Patrick

  Lakes, Talking, Car

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• We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Choices, Forever

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Liberty, Veterans And Freedom, News

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Positive, Veterans Day

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Uplifting, Native American

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• From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

  Allen West

  Summer, Monday, Holiday

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• All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Evil, Focus

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• We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

  Blaise Pascal

  War, Rivers, Would Be

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• 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.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Uplifting, Flower, Hero

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• 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.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Uplifting, Military, Thinking

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

  Charles Sangster

  Uplifting, Hero, Play

  Charles Sangster, “Brock”

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• Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Uplifting, Memories, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

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

  Lee Greenwood

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Army

  Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memories

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• Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

  Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers

  Inspiring, Memories, Military

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• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  Bob Riley

  Uplifting, Sacrifice, Long

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• 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?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Military, Moving

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• Ah! never shall the land forget.

  William C. Bryant

  Land, Forget, Memorial

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• 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

  Uplifting, Cheer, Rose

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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