Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A soldier that dies to protect the lives and freedom of their fellow citizens deserves a day of recognition. Happy Memorial Day. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Roy, you left the girls and I surrounded by love. Our families and friends have been amazing. We love you and we… — Susan Wallace 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
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day! I give thanks to all the veterans that served our country. They all should get the honor that they… — Rasheed Bryant Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't… — Karl Welzein Copy Share Image
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
Happy Memorial Day! Honor our countries veterans and thank men you know that are in service. They've kept us safe, let them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
