This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
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.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
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.
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
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