Quotes and Sayings About Memorial Day
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So long as there are men, there will be wars.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.
-- Allen West -
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.
-- Allen West -
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
-- Allen West -
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While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.
-- Allen West -
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 that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
-- Barack Obama -
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
-- Barack Obama -
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
-- Bergen Evans -
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I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
-- Bill Cosby -
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
-- Billy Graham -
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
-- Bob Marley -
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
-- Bob Riley -
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
-- Charles SangsterSource : Charles Sangster, “Brock”
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I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.
-- Chris Crutcher -
Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
-- Courteney Cox -
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
-- Criss Jami -
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
-- Dan Rather -
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On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
-- Danica Patrick -
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
-- Daniel WebsterSource : Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.
-- David W. Blight -
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
-- Doc HastingsSource : FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
In war there is no substitute for victory.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
-- Duke of Wellington -
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 on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
-- Dwight Schultz