Memorial Day Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Military

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

  Walter Scott

  Memorial, Soldier, Warfare

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.140

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• So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Battle

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus, transl. by G. J. Acheson, chapter 4, paragraph 22, final sentence, p. 72, 1938.

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• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Freedom, Long, Bird

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, War, Book

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press

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• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

  Schuyler Colfax

  Ideas, Remembrance, Martyr

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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?

  George Henry Boker

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169

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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.

  Howard Zinn

  Memories, Betrayal, War

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.331, Seven Stories Press

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• "Dead upon the field of glory,"
  Hero fit for song and story.

  John R. Thompson

  Uplifting, Song, Hero

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• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• And I'm proud to be an American,
  Where at least I know I'm free,
  And I won't forget the men who died,
  Who gave that right to me
  And I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,
  Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,
  God bless the USA

  Lee Greenwood

  Men, Land, Usa

  "Song: "God Bless the U.S.A."". 1984.

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

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Land, Remembrance, Tears

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

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• They saw their injured country's woe.

  Philip Freneau

  Country, Woe, Saws

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

  Lee Greenwood

  Land, Doubt, Causes

  Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

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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.

  Rupert Brooke

  Lonely, Military, Blow

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  John Brown ch. 13 (1909)

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Atheist

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, 4th Of July

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Country, Peace

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Military, Patriotism, Compass

  Letter to Boston Commercial Club, 1879.

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• Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

  Martin Luther

  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Time

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

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• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Uplifting, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

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• True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

  Robert Reich

  America, Remembrance, Burden

  Robert Reich (2017). “Economics in Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone Mad and Mean”, p.50, Fantagraphics Books

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