Memorial Day Quotes - Page 6

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

  Charles Sangster

  Uplifting, Hero, Play

  Charles Sangster, “Brock”

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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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• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Uplifting, Warrior, Men

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• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Suffering, Chance

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sports, Hero, Aspiration

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

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• Their silent wounds have speech
  More eloquent than men;
  Their tones can deeper reach
  Than human voice or pen.

  William Robert Woodman

  Thank You, Uplifting, Men

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• 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

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293

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• Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Bad Ass

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith

  Song, Singing, Victory

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Teacher, Children, Hero

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Patriotic, Men

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

  Lucy Larcom

  Remembrance, Liberty, Scales

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.131

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• Freedom lies in being bold.

  Robert Frost

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Courage

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Courage, Fear, Remembrance

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• All gave some, Some gave all.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Happy Memorial Day, Honoring Memorial Day

  Song: Some Gave All, Album: Some Gave All, 1992

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Peace, Wall

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wall, War

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Their own souls rose and cried
  Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
  Of stricken freedom and along the gale
  Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

  John Le Gay Brereton

  Uplifting, Rose, Soul

  John Le Gay Brereton, “The Dead”

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• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Adversity, Blood

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  Mean, Self, Light

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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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

  Uplifting, Country, Insulting

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

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• If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Country, Should

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• We who are left, how shall we look again
  Happily on the sun or feel the rain
  Without remembering how they who went
  Ungrudgingly and spent
  Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

  Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

  Love, Uplifting, Death

  Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1926). “Collected poems, 1905-1925”

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