Memorial Day Quotes

No one is born a hero. A hero rises from the ashes of subservience. Necessity is the mother of invention. Thus, great people take birth in times of strife and struggle.

• Benjamin Disraeli
  The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
  
  
• William Cullen Bryant
  Ah! never shall the land forget.
  
  
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  Bravery never goes out of fashion.
  
  
• John Lennon
  When we say war is over if you want it, we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
  
  
• Thomas Dunn English
  But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
  Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
  
  
• Thomas Moore
  Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
  Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...
  
  
• Philip Freneau
  They saw their injured country's woe.
  
  
• Publilius Syrus
  Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
  
  
• Mark Twain
  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
  
  
• Martin Luther
  Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
  
  
• Joseph Campbell
  A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
  
  
• Charles Sangster
  The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
  
  
• Randy Vader
  The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.
  
  
• Richard Hovey
  Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
  
  
• Corra Harris
  The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
  
  
• Albert Einstein
  We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.