Quotes on Memorial Day Messages

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.

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

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.

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.

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.