Memorial Quotes - Page 17

• We cherish too, the Poppy red
  That grows on fields where valor led,
  It seems to signal to the skies
  That blood of heroes never dies.

  Moina Michael

  Memorial Day, Hero, Blood

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• In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Commitment, Justice

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• We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Men, Choices

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Home, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Strong, Sight

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Evil, Essentials, Dying Death

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Christmas, Years, Important

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.205

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• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  David W. Blight

  Memorial Day, Song, Monday

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• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Motivational, Regret, People

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Memorial Day, War

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

  George H. W. Bush

  Daughter, Memorial Day, Brother

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• A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

  Dean Koontz

  Redemption, May, Flesh

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.61, Bantam

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• Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Letters, Significant

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• I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Liberty, Veterans And Freedom

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• But fame is theirs - and future days
  On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
  Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
  "These for their country fought and bled."

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293

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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

  Memorial Day, Memories, Betrayal

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

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