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Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
Sep 10, 2025
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
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.
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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