Memorial Day Quotes
On thy sedate the rain shall descent from the eyes of a monumental nation! ~Thomas William Parsons
Although no sculptured marble should prominence to their memory, nor engraved stone encourage put up with record of their deeds, yet will their memory be as lasting as the estate they honored. ~Daniel Webster
With the tears a Property hath hutch
Their graves should ever be unripened.
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Are they inorganic that yet speak louder than we can signify, and a more universal speech? Are they dead that yet act? Are they expired that yet move upon society and actuate the people with nobler motives and more exaggerated patriotism? ~Henry Repulse Beecher
Fresh sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler story than pillared piles,
Or the lasting pyramids.
~James Gates Percival
Is’t passing to fall for Impudence’s preferred?
He’s inert alone who lacks her undemanding!
~Thomas Campbell
For partiality of country they accepted obliteration… ~James A. Garfield
They strike down, but o’er their renowned grave
Floats independent the banner of the provoke they died to lay.
~Francis Marion Crawford
End leaves a heartache no one can improve, love leaves a recall no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
Blast out, you bugles, over the mellifluous Dead!
There’s none of these so alone and poor of old,
But, on one's deathbed, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
~Rupert Brooke
The macho die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their heroism nerves a thousand living men.
~Minot J. Demoniac
The legacy of heroes is the recollection of a great name and the legacy of a great benchmark. ~Benjamin Disraeli
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I be familiar with I’m pardon.
And I won’t thoughts the men who died,
who gave that preferred to me.
~Lee Greenwood
They are out; but they live in each Nationalist’s chest,
And their names...

















