Memorial Day Quotes
+3The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.
- Rev. Aaron Kilbourn
+1In valor there is hope.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
+1The purpose of all war is peace.
- Saint Augustine
+1Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
+1Self trust is the essence of heroism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1For love of country they accepted death.
- James A. Garfield
+1Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
- Publilius Syrus
+1It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
- Louis Pasteur
+1Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
- Calvin Coolidge
+1A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- Novalis
+1With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
+1On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
- Thomas William Parsons
+1Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right? He’s dead alone who lacks her light!
- Thomas Campbell
+1Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.
- Thomas Moore
+1A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- Joseph Campbell
+1Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris
+1Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
+1Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
- François
+1And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1They fell, but o’er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
- Francis Marion Crawford
+1Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- G. K. Chesterton
+1They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+1It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
+1True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
- François
+1Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
- James Gates Percival
+1The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality conforming, life promoting values.
- Andrew Bernstein
+1But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,Is their monument to day, and for aye.
- Thomas Dunn English
+1And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
- Joseph Drake
+1Blow 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
+1The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
- Minot J. Savage
+1History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
0The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
- Lord Byron
