Some quotes to ponder on Memorial Day 2014 Memorial Day is a day dedicated to remembering the men and women who died serving in the United States Armed Forces. And while the citizens of America should be grateful every day to those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom, this special day is set aside to honor those who have helped preserve our freedom. Through the course of time, there have been many Memorial Day quotes that have been uttered by people in regards to the holiday and freedom in general. Here are some of our favorite quotes to commemorate this Memorial Day, and if you are an active duty Service Member or Veteran, we salute you and thank you for we would not be free without the sacrifices you made for all of us. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. -George Washington Only the dead have seen the end of war. -- Plato The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. -- Minot J. Savage A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. -- Joseph Campbell I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Memorial Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. -- Benjamin Harrison One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. -- Antonio Porchia Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. -- Wallace Bruce The patriots blood is the seed to freedoms tree. -- Thomas Campbell The best road to progress is freedoms road. -- John F. Kennedy Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. -- Mark Twain There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. -- Nelson Mandela The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -- Benjamin Disraeli Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. -- W.J. Cameron Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. -- Wayne Dyer And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldiers tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. -- Joseph Drake 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 Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -- Ronald Reagan Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. -- Daniel Webster Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. -- Bob Marley
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:20:20 +0000
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