Memorial Day Quotes
The best sayings about Memorial Day that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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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.
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But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.
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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.
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
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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.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
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I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.
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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.
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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.
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