«Memorial Day»

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.

Randy Vader

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

Joseph Rodman Drake

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

Billy Graham

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

William Penn

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.

Muhammad

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

William Havard

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

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

Thomas William Parsons

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.

Lee Greenwood

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:

Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Minot J. Savage

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.

Thomas Campbell

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Francis Marion Crawford

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

Wallace Bruce