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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Sep 10, 2025
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
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.
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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.
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.
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.
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 Decoration 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.
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.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
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.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
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.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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