Quotes for Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, make a solemn oath to work for the betterment of your country. Instead of finding fault with it, let us work on improving the nation. Participate in social programs, charity work, or voluntary service to help the needy. Gain valuable insight with these quotes for Memorial Day.

• Benjamin Disraeli
  Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
  
  
• Calvin Coolidge
  Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
  
  
• Carol Lynn Pearson
  Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
  
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.
  
  
• Henry Ward Beecher
  Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
  
  
• Billy Graham
  Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
  
  
• Wallace Bruce
  Who kept the faith and fought the fight;
  The glory theirs, the duty ours.
  
  
• Walt Whitman
  Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
  
  
• Muhammad
  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.
  
  
• Rupert Brooke
  Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
  There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
  
  
• Rupert Hughes
  The flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, the starry lives that keep its field alight.
  
  
• Napoleon Bonaparte
  Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
  
  
• William Woodman
  Their silent wounds have speech
  More eloquent than men;
  Their tones can deeper reach
  Than human voice or pen.