Memorial Day Quotes: 15 Sayings For The Holiday

It's time for Memorial Day quotes with Memorial Day taking place on Monday, May 31, 2010.

Here's a roundup of some of the best Memorial Day quotes and sayings to share with loved ones and honor those who have gone before us.

Feel free to share your favorite or provide your own quotes and tributes in the comments below.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. -Henry Ward Beecher

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. -Wallace Bruce

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. -Joseph Campbell

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. -Thomas Campbell

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. - Benjamin Disraeli

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye. -Thomas Dunn English

For love of country they accepted death... -James A. Garfield

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children. -William Havard

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. -Aaron Kilbourn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. -William Penn

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! -Thomas William Parsons

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men. -Minot J. Savage

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. -Francis A. Walker

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me. -Lee Greenwood

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Comments

[SweetPhyl]

01:10 PM on 05/31/2010

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~ General John A. Logan
as he issued the first proclamation creating Memorial Day.

[ljfoor]

09:04 AM on 05/31/2010

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. Arthur Ashe

[frscon]

05:57 AM on 05/31/2010

"THE STONES OF WHITE, ALL NEATLY SPACED.
THE ORDER COMES, "RIFLES RETORT!"
THEN QUIET ECHOES THROUGH THE LAND.
AND MUFFLED DRUMS GIVE THEIR REPORT.

THE FLAG, IT WAVES OVER HEAD,
FLIES HALF-STAFF, SALUTES WITH PRIDE.
THE BREEZE RUFFLES THAT VALUED CLOTH
TO HONOR THOSE WHO SERVED AND DIED.

THE LADY STANDS ALONE. HER LAMP ALOFT
DOES CAUSE HER CHEEK, A TEAR TO GLISTEN.
THE BUGLE; TAPS TO SAY GOODBYE, FALL
ON EARS THAT NO LONGER LISTEN.

QUIET SETTLES AS EVENING COMES,
LEAVING SPRAYS OF FLOWERS TO DOME.
THOSE WHITE STONES, SHADOWS LENGHTENED LONG
AS GOD CALLS OUR SOLDIERS HOME!

©1998 FRANK J. SCONZO, SR.

[psssd]

12:00 PM on 05/29/2010

and to think NYC voted to build a Mosque on ground zero!!! What a discrace to our fallen soldiers!

[CrankYankee]

09:41 PM on 05/29/2010

It would be a 'disgrace' to forget that one thing our fallen soldiers fought for was to preserve freedom of religion in this country.

[proud2be]

03:35 PM on 05/30/2010

@psssd: You are a disgrace to our fallen soldiers. If they fought for bigotry and stupidity then that'd be a different story.

A note on terrorists.

They are all nationalities. They are all religions. They are all political parties.

Just because some fanatical Muslims went and hijacked airplanes and committed the acts they did on 9-11, doesn't mean that ALL Muslims were cheering. It doesn't mean that ALL Muslims supported it. Many MUSLIM leaders publicly denounced the act as disgraceful to their religion and beliefs.

But then again... Muslims are terrorists, African-Americans are serial rapists, gang members and murderers, Latin-Americans are illegal immigrants. Am I right?

Somehow I wonder how a nation like ours became so... prejudiced. It would probably freak you out that Muslims serve in our military branches, wouldn't it. Just like during World War II, there were JAPANESE-AMERICANS serving the United States. All the way back through the history of our nation, members from the 'bad guys' helped by either serving in our armed forces or assisting them.

"One of the amendments to the Constitution... expressly declares that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,' thereby guarding in the same sentence and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press; insomuch that whatever violates either throws down the sanctuary which covers the others." --Thomas Jefferson 1798.

[Dr Roy]

12:38 PM on 05/31/2010

@proud2be:

I would like to thank you for your perspective...an American and Jeffersonian perspective. You are right, of course, that not all Muslims are fanatical terrorist (although I would not go so far as to say the MANY muslim leaders denounced the act - but maybe the media never showed that?). But you are right and we do need to be careful when that pedulum begins to swing too far toward the "pre-judging" attitudes against a specific group of peoples. Although this attitude is an understanable reaction to the repeated attacks by this one group (Muslim terrorists) against our country, none the less, we do need to try to keep to our founding principles.

That said, however, I still feel that building a Mosque on ground zero is a bit much. I am sure there is plenty of space and land to build a Mosque somewhere else in New York State, or any of the other 49 states of this country. But it was Muslin fanatics that perpetrated 9-11. To put up a Mosque at that locations would be the equivalent of allowing Japan to build an embassy on the docks at Pearl Harbor. In my opinion, it dishonours those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for this nation. Something we should be sensitive to 365 days a year, but most especially on this Memorial Day.

[mary colvin]

06:06 AM on 06/01/2010

WHEN GIVING AN EXAMPLE OF WHO FLEW PLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MY GOD DONT SAY JUST BECAUSE.

[EveYork]

07:37 PM on 05/28/2010

For all those who served, shed blood and died that we may live in freedom, united in hope and future peace, we salute and thank you most humbly with our love and prayers now and forever...
My God's Grace hold you in His Loving Embrace for all time...

[Mr Wizzard]

02:50 AM on 05/29/2010

Thank You - Eve York - I was an honor to serve. GOD Bless America

[rjmex]

11:18 AM on 05/29/2010

I served from 1964 to 1988. I was on the USS Forrestal at the time the fire broke out in the late 60’s. We lost, in that one fire, over 160 good men. It’s people like these that, in my book, are the heroes of our times. I was also stationed in Saigon, Vietnam, in a helicopter squadron, as a helicopter crewmember. Many lost lives and sorrowful memories. Proud to serve, U.S. Navy retired.