Memorial Weekend Quotes
The best sayings about Memorial Weekend that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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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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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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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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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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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?
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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
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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.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
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Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.
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On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
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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.
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
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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.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
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We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Franklin Pierce 14th U.S. President -
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Francis Harold Cook Author
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Frank Sartor Legislator -
Fred Richmond Member of the United States House of Representatives -
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Frank P. Ramsey Philosopher -
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Fujiwara no Teika Poet
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Fred Polak Poet -
Frank Howard Clark Screenwriter
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Frankie Laine Singer -
Freda Adler Writer
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