Famous Quotes & Sayings

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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

Henry Waxman

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Henry Ward Beecher

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?

Henry Ward Beecher

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Kurt Angle

Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is lacking is Memorial Day, which is today by the way, where we in the States celebrate our war heroes by having barbeques . And I realize here in Canada you can't have barbeques because you'd probably be attacked by a moose, or caribou, or even a grizzly.

Mason Cooley

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

John McCain

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

John McCain

We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth

George Crabbe

But monument themselves memorials need.

John Conyers

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

Lucy Larcom

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

John M. McHugh

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

John Linder

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

Judith Martin

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.

Joshua Chamberlain

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

Joshua Chamberlain

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.

Joyce Grenfell

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

Maya Angelou

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Ovid

The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Orwell

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

John Paul Jones

I have not yet begun to fight!

John Gallagher

The memorial will be a magnificent tribute to those we lost.

Lee Greenwood

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.