Memorial Day Quotes and Sayings

On Memorial Day, we commemorate our brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. They did not live long enough to experience the privileges that we enjoy. Our success stands on the shoulders of their sacrifice. Let us unite and sing in praise of these unknown heroes with these Memorial Day quotes and sayings.

• Francis A. Walker
  We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
  
  
• Francis Marion Crawford
  They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
  Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
  
  
• Daniel Webster
  Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
  
  
• Lucy Larcom
  Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
  
  
• Marcus Garvey
  Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
  
  
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
  
  
• George F. Kennan
  Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more.
  
  
• George Henry Boker
  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?
  
  
• Benjamin Harrison
  I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
  
  
• James A. Garfield
  For love of country they accepted death.
  
  
• Omar Bradley
  Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
  
  
• Philip Freneau
  But fame is theirs -- and future days
  On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
  
  
• Lise Hand
  That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
  
  
• Louis Pasteur
  It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
  
  
• James Gates Percival
  Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
  A nobler history than pillared piles,
  Or the eternal pyramids.
  
  
• Albert Einstein
  So long as there are men there will be wars.