Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! — Thomas William Parsons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
