Memorial Day Quotes - Page 3

• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Freedom

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• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, War, Book

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

  George Washington

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• 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.

  Arthur Ashe

  Courage, Hero, Army

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Cheer, Soldier, Tears

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria

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• I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Inspiring, Memories, Israel

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• If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, One Day, Praying

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• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

  George McGovern

  Love, Country, Acceptance

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• Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

  Elijah Muhammad

  Wise, Prayer, Learning

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• 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.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Country, Veterans Day

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• All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

  Rudyard Kipling

  Uplifting, Freedom, Father

  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)

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• Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

  Thomas Moore

  Uplifting, Eye, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1850). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore”, p.177

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• They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  American Veterans, Clouds, Remembrance

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• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

  Novalis

  Motivational, Hero, Overcoming Addiction

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Freedom, Patriotic

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hero, Patriotic, Men

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• Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

  James Gates Percival

  Pyramids, Green, Monument

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286

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• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Uplifting, Rain, Fall

  Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29

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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.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Country, Veterans Day, 4th Of July

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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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.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Brother, Lying

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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• They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Loss, Causes, Graves

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• Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Sacrifice, Honor

  Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 30, 2011.

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• As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

  John M. McHugh

  War, America, Rehabilitation

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Courage, Hurt, Humble

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