MEMORIAL DAY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

“The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” – Jeff Miller

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” – Eleanor 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

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.” – Thomas Campbell

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

“America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.” – Claudia Pemberton

“True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.” – Robert Reich

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.” – Minot J. Savage

“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won, until our country is free and is at peace.” – Nelson Mandela

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – Kevin Arnold NO ONE IS BORN RACIST QUOTE

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.” – John F. Kennedy

“We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.” – Francis A. Walker

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – Douglas MacArthur

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan

“The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.” – William Havard

“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” – George William Curtis

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

“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

“Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.” – Joe Barton

“They fell, but o’er their glorious grave. Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.” – Francis Marion Crawford

“A hero is someone who has given his life to something bigger than himself.” – Joseph Campbell