Quotes on Happy Memorial Day

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

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.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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?

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.