Quotes about memorial-day
memorial-day real war
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. Walt Whitman
memorial-day real war
The real war will never get in the books.
memorial-day cheer soldier
I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. Robert Green Ingersoll
memorial-day memories weekend
I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it. Rudy Giuliani
memorial-day goal alliances
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation. Ronald Reagan
memorial-day determination community
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.
memorial-day flower hero
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. Silas Weir Mitchell
memorial-day blood land
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave - William C. Bryant
memorial-day land forget
Ah! never shall the land forget.
memorial-day memorial soldier
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er. Walter Scott
memorial-day military war
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
memorial-day spring inspiration
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank. Woodrow Wilson
memorial-day freedom 4th-of-july
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. William J. Clinton
memorial-day home land
I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.
memorial-day liberty watches
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.
memorial-day children patriotic
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.
memorial-day commitment justice
In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.
memorial-day men forever
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.
memorial-day strong sight
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.
memorial-day war military
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
memorial-day sacrifice giving
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.