Memorial Day Quotations - Top 45

"And each and every gentleman stand with his confront in the gentle of his very own drawn sword. Completely ready to do what a hero can." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Who kept the faith and fought the battle The glory theirs, the obligation ours." -- Wallace Bruce

"A hero is someone who has given his or her daily life to something even bigger than oneself." -- Joseph Campbell

"Is't death to drop for Freedom's right?" -- Thomas Campbell

"Include them in excess of with gorgeous flowers, Deck them with garlands, individuals brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day." -- Will Carleton

"People who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will might develop memorial halls to remind people who shall gather there in following instances what manhood could do and dare for proper, and what high examples of virtue and valor have absent ahead of them. But allow us make our providing to the ever-dwelling heart and soul. Enable us create our benefactions in the at any time-increasing soul, that they will live and rise and disperse in blessing over and above our sight, outside of the ken of male and outside of the contact of time." -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Memorial Day 1884

"Heroism is latent in every human heart and soul....Nevertheless humble or unfamiliar, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully carried out all self-denials privations, toils, risks, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-prolonged hurts and losses, loss of life itself ? For some great very good, dimly witnessed but dearly held." -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Memorial Day 1828-1914

"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an thought." -- Schuyler Colfax

"How snooze the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!" -- William Collins

"They fell, but o'er their wonderful grave Floats free the banner of the trigger they died to save." -- Francis Marion Crawford

"Ah! in no way will the land forget." -- William Cullen Bryant

Genuine bravery is revealed by executing without witness what one may be capable of performing prior to all the globe." -- Fran&ccedilois de la Rochefoucauld

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a fantastic brand and the inheritance of a wonderful instance." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"We should be well prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the result in of war. There is no task that is a lot more important or closer to my soul." -- Albert Einstein

"Self-rely on is the essence of heroism." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each and every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Spirit, that made those heroes dare." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"But the liberty that they fought for, and the place grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye." -- Thomas Dunn English

"But fame is theirs - and foreseeable future times On pillar'd brass shall explain to their

praise" -- Philip Freneau

"They saw their injured country's woe." -- Philip Freneau

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