Memorial Quotes

290 quotes by 235 authors

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more… — Miguel de Cervantes
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we… — George Meredith
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend,… — George H. W. Bush
They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so… — Barack Obama
This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us… — Richard M. Nixon
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America.… — George W. Bush
Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war. — Richard M. Nixon
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of… — George W. Bush
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.… — Woodrow Wilson
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful… — Herbert Hoover
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be… — Zach Wamp
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting… — Dwight Schultz
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers. — Blaise Pascal
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another. — Duke of Wellington
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country. — Zebulon Pike
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that… — Ronald Reagan

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235 authors contributed a total of 290 Memorial Quotes, led by these top contributors: