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Memorial weekend Quotes

18 quotes from 16 authors

Memorial weekend pulls us into the stories of those who gave everything for a nation’s promise. These 18 voices stitch together heroism, sacrifice, and the quiet pride that lingers after the parade. If you crave more on national duty, check out the Patriotism and War Heroes pages for deeper reflections.

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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

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"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

John R. Thompson

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Thomas William Parsons

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I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

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

Francis Marion Crawford

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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but…

George Henry Boker

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But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

Thomas Dunn English

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

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

Joseph Rodman Drake

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If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's…

Michele Bachmann

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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel…

Benjamin Harrison

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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?…

Henry Ward Beecher

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