Memorial Day Quotes - Page 7

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  Zebulon Pike

  Smile, Country, Heaven

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Hero, Heart, Blessing

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• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ronald K. L. Collins (2010). “The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

  Rupert Hughes

  Uplifting, Blood, Flags

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• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

  Bernard Malamud

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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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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• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Courage, War

  Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952

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

  Bergen Evans

  Freedom, Fear, Thinking

  "The Natural History of Nonsense". Book by Bergen Evans, 1946.

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• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Remembrance, Bravery

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• America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

  Paul Tsongas

  Compassion, America, Excellence

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• The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

  Herbert Croly

  Uplifting, Native American, Patriotic

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

  Philip James Bailey

  Military, Animal, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.213

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• So long as there are men, there will be wars.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Men, Long

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• Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Meaningful, Hero, Positivity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2613, Delphi Classics

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• And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Hero, Men, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1188, Delphi Classics

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Courage

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful.

  George W. Bush

  Grateful, Sacrifice, White

  George W. Bush Honors the Brave and Fallen Defenders of Freedom in Arlington, Virginia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2003.

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Block, Inspiration

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• In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Commitment, Justice, Brave

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• True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Freedom, Military, Thinking

  "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

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• Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

  James Carafano

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Hero

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• Love for one's country is part of faith.

  Muhammad

  Country, Memorial

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• Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hope to keep safe by their sacrifice.

  George W. Bush

  Memories, Sacrifice, America

  "NewsNight" with Rick Sanchez, edition.cnn.com. May 30, 2005.

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• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

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