Famous memorial-day quotations

   Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms Nice Word by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generatio Good Quote by W.J. Cameron

   All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. Wise Phrase by Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

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

   Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?  Famous Saying by Henry Ward Beecher

   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 DayI have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate r Nice Word by Benjamin Harrison

   These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea Meaningful Quotation by Schuyler Colfax

   For love of country they accepted death.. Good Quote by James A. Garfield

   For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity Wise Phrase by William Penn

   Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!, There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. Wise Phrase by Rupert Brooke

   These heroes are deadThey died for liberty - they died for usThey are at restThey sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vinesThey sleep be Famous Saying by Robert G. Ingersoll

   Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generatio Nice Word by W.J. Cameron

   The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:,Their courage nerves a thousand living men. Meaningful Quotation by Minot J. Savage

   Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic Good Quote by John A. Logan

   With the tears a Land hath shed, Their graves should ever be green. Wise Phrase by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

   Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored Wise Phrase by Daniel Webster

   These heroes are deadThey died for liberty - they died for usThey are at restThey sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vinesThey sleep be Famous Saying by Robert G. Ingersoll

   Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!  Nice Word by Lucy Larcom

   Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal Meaningful Quotation by From a headstone in Ireland

   Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal Good Quote by From a headstone in Ireland

   Ah! never shall the land forget, How gushed the life-blood of her brave - Wise Phrase by William Cullen Bryant

   How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  Wise Phrase by Maya Angelou

   The hero dead cannot expire:, The dead still play their part. Famous Saying by Charles Sangster

   Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms Nice Word by Thomas Bailey Aldrich



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