12 Memorial Day Quotes

In honor and recognition of Memorial Day and the loyal, brave and sometimes unremembered gallant men and women who through out the ages have fought for what they believed in, here are 12 Memorial Day quotes:

1. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. — General George S. Patton

1. We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.  — Francis A. Walker

1. 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.  — Daniel Webster

1. 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.  — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1. 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

1. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.  — Benjamin Disraeli

1. And I’m proud to be an American,
   where at least I know I’m free.
   And I won’t forget the men who died,
   who gave that right to me.
   – Lee Greenwood

1. 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 generations of American youth.  — W.J. Cameron

1. They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
   And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
   – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10.  Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  ~From a headstone in Ireland

11.  Better to fight for something than live for nothing – George S. Patton

12.  It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. – Douglas MacArthur

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