Quotes on Memorial Day

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

Ah! never shall the land forget.

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?

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

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