Fallen Hero Quotes:

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

- Barack Obama

topic: Memorial Day, Hero, Sacrifice, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Soldiers

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

- Rahm Emanuel

topic: Teamwork, Hero, Sacrifice, Fallen Hero

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

- Michael N. Castle

topic: Country, Memorial Day, Hero, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day, Something Bigger Than Yourself, Inspirational Military

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

topic: Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Inspirational Courage, Memorial Day Heroes

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

- Minot Judson Savage

source: Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

topic: Death, Memorial Day, Sleep, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Memorial Day, Gratitude, Memorial Day Heroes, Fallen Hero

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Memories, Hero, Names, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

source: Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day, Soldiers At War, Inspirational Military

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

- Arthur Ashe

source: "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

topic: Courage, Hero, Army, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Remembrance

To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

- Barack Obama

topic: Memorial Day, Memories, Hero, Fallen Hero

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom, Inaugural Speech, Independence And Freedom

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

- Thomas Campbell

source: Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Poems

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

- Joseph Rodman Drake

topic: Country, Memories, Light, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Poems

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Memorial Day, Names, Honor, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Poems

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

- Mark Twain

source: "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

topic: Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Memorial Day, Clouds, Memorial, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Poems

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

- Lee Greenwood

source: Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

topic: Army, Proud, Proud To Be An American, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Memorial Day, Patriotic, Men, Being A Hero, Fallen Hero

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

- Eric Burdon

topic: Memorial Day, Men, World, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Weekend

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

- Benjamin Harrison

source: Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Military, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

- Barack Obama

topic: Stupid, Hero, Honor, Dumb Things, Fallen Hero

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

- Jon Porter

topic: War, Hero, Fighting, Fallen Hero