Heroes Day Quotes

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  • I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

    Courage   Freedom   Hero  
    Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.
  • Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn
  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

    Sympathy   Death   Wisdom  
    Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.
  • True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

    "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.
  • Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  • I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria
  • Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics
  • They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.
  • And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  • Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

    United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
  • 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 (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
  • 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.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

    Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media
  • We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
  • Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

    Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 30, 2011.
  • A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • 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.

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

    Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot
  • A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  • A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

    "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.
  • They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  • The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
  • The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  • The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

    Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”
  • While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

    "Honoring Our Heroes" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.
  • Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

    Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
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