When you think of the selfless souls who sacrifice their happiness for our security, you realize how much you have to be grateful for. Here are Memorial Day sayings to commemorate martyrs the world over.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
- Henry Ward Beecher
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
- Schuyler Colfax
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
- Senator Barry Goldwater
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- James A. Autry
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
- Andrew Bernstein
The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.
- Thomas William Parsons
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
- Thucydides
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
- Richard Watson Gilder
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
In valor there is hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
- Novalis
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- Will Carleton
Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day
Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
Give them the meed they have won in the past;
Give them the honors their future forcast;
Give them the chaplets they won in the strife;
Give them the laurels they lost with their life.
- William Collins
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
- S. Weir Mitchell
Alas, how can we help but mourn
When hero bosoms yield their breath!
A century itself may bear
But once the flower of such a death.
- William Penn
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Pitt
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- Saint Augustine
The purpose of all war is peace.
- Michel de Montaigne
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- Minot J. Savage
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
