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title: "18 Memorial weekend Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Memorial weekend quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Memorial weekend sayings and thoughts."
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> [We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/we-shall-pay-any-price-bear-any-burden-to-assure-the-survival-and-the/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> ["Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-r-thompson/dead-upon-the-field-of-glory-hero-fit-for-song-and-story/)

John R. Thompson

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> [On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-william-parsons/on-thy-grave-the-rain-shall-fall-from-the-eyes-of-a-mighty-nation/)

Thomas William Parsons

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> [With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bailey-aldrich/with-the-tears-a-land-hath-shed-their-graves-should-ever-be-green/)

[Thomas Bailey Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bailey-aldrich/)

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> [They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-marion-crawford/they-fell-but-o-er-their-glorious-grave-floats-free-the-banner-of-the/)

[Francis Marion Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-marion-crawford/)

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> [I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-greenwood/i-m-proud-to-be-an-american-where-at-least-i-know-i-m-free/)

[Lee Greenwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-greenwood/)

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> [They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/they-hover-as-a-cloud-of-witnesses-above-this-nation/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-moore/peace-to-each-manly-soul-that-sleepeth-rest-to-each-faithful-eye-that/)

[Thomas Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-moore/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hovey/our-cheer-goes-back-to-them-the-valiant-dead-laurels-and-roses-on/)

[Richard Hovey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hovey/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michele-bachmann/if-you-threw-a-barbecue-yesterday-for-the-memorial-weekend-it-was-29/)

[Michele Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michele-bachmann/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/they-are-dead-but-they-live-in-each-patriot-s-breast-and-their-names/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bailey-aldrich/decoration-day-is-the-most-beautiful-of-our-national-holidays-the/)

[Thomas Bailey Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-henry-boker/fold-him-in-his-country-s-stars-roll-the-drum-and-fire-the-volley/)

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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-dunn-english/but-the-freedom-that-they-fought-for-and-the-country-grand-they/)

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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-modern-patriotism-the-true-patriotism-the-only-rational/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-rodman-drake/and-they-who-for-their-country-die-shall-fill-an-honored-grave-for/)

[Joseph Rodman Drake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-rodman-drake/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-harrison/i-have-never-been-able-to-think-of-the-day-as-one-of-mourning-i-have/)

[Benjamin Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/are-they-dead-that-yet-speak-louder-than-we-can-speak-and-a-more/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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