Quotes About Memorial Day

What inspires martyrs to lay down their life for their country? Certainly not fame or wealth. Is it for a place in God's Heaven? The soldier's love for the motherland knows no logic or reason. That is why every year even though thousands of soldiers die in battle, many more join the ranks to take their place. Say a prayer for these brave soldiers with these quotes about Memorial Day.

• Arthur Ashe
  True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
  
  
• Robert Lynd
  The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
  
  
• Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue
  All we have of freedom, all we use or know--
  This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
  
  
• Thucydides
  The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.
  
  
• W. J. Cameron
  Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this day passes. Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Spirit, that made those heroes dare
  To die, and leave their children free,
  Bid Time and Nature gently spare
  The shaft we raise to them and thee.
  
  
• Web Dubois
  The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.
  
  
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson
  We who are left how shall we look again
  Happily on the sun or feel the rain
  Without remembering how they who went
  Ungrudgingly and spent
  Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
  
  
• Georges Clemenceau
  War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
  
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
  And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
  
  
• Bernard Malamud
  Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.