I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay…

Today isn't just another day off, it's a day to remember those who have sacrificed their life for your FREEDOM. Happy Memorial Day!

— Sonya Parker

'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's…

— Josh Fox

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

— Herbert Croly

We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in…

— Ronald Reagan

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and…

— Richard Hovey

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's…

— Dave Grohl

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

— Francis Marion Crawford

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans…

— Mona Charen

President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a…

— Argus Hamilton

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the…

— Susan Eisenhower

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country…

— Douglas MacArthur

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so…

— Glenn Beck

I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the…

— Douglas Adams

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

— Thomas William Parsons