Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Rich Sommer

Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

Robert Charles Winthrop

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

Rudyard Kipling

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Rudy Giuliani

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.

Ronald Reagan

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

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.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

James Carafano

Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

Jack Straw

Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.

George William Curtis

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Hoover

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.

Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

Gale Harold

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Eric Burdon

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

George W. Bush

Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful.

George W. Bush

Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.

Francis Marion Crawford

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

I've just spoken with Rohan on the phone. He had just returned from a memorial service.

It was important to her and I wanted to see that it was done. It was kind of a memorial to her.

Paul Wright

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

Fred Rogers

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Burt Lancaster

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,

Nathan East

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

J. K. Rowling

The ones that love us never really leave us.

James Cromwell

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

James Gates Percival

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Natasha Trethewey

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.” Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born “exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.