Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each…

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

— Joseph Rodman Drake

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

— Francis Marion Crawford

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

— Thomas William Parsons

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it…

— Mark Twain

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how…

— George Washington

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

— Barack Obama

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

— John F. Kennedy

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays… The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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