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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
Sep 10, 2025
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?
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
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.
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.
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
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.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
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.
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.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
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.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
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.
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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!
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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.