America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.
Claudia Pemberton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.
George S. Patton
To those in uniform serving today and to those who have served in the past, we honor you today and every day.
Unknown
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future.
Elie Wiesel
Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.
Mary Roach
Never was so much owed by so many few.
Winston Churchill
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
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
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Jennifer M. Granholm
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton
For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.
James A. Garfield
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin coolidge
Home of the free, because of the brave.
Unknown
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
May we never forget freedom isn’t free.
Unknown
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.
Unknown
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.
Barack Obama
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson II
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.
Minot J. Savage
The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.
Thomas Campbell
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
Wallace Bruce