Memorial Day Quotes

Much inspiration can be gained from the people that have made the ultimate sacrifice when fighting for an ideal they believed in.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

-Joseph Campbell

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;

Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth…

- Thomas Moore

Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity

-William Penn

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

-Thomas William Parsons
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for,
Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

- Thomas Dunn English
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree

- Thomas Campbell

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust:
Their courage nerves a thousand living men

-Minot J. Savage

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.

- Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.

- Aaron Kilbourn