Memorial Day Messages Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

  Michael N. Castle

  Country, Memorial Day, Hero

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memorial Day, Cheer, Soldier

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

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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?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

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• With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Memorial Day, Land, Remembrance

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, War, Adversity

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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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, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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

  Thomas William Parsons

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rain

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

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• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

  Henry Ford

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, America

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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.

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Memorial Day, Sleep

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.140

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• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ronald K. L. Collins (2010). “The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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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.

  Richard Hovey

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Cheer

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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