Memorial Day Quotes

Memorial Day isn’t simply the three-day end of the week, however, for some adolescents, it’s only a day off from school. Until as of late, youngsters have not encountered the unfairness of war. We didn’t fully understand how much our country’s troopers forfeit, or give them the respect they merit. Memorial Day ought to be a day for us to value our veterans and pay our regards to the individuals who kicked the bucket battling for our nation’s freedom. Memorial Day was initially known as Decoration Day on the grounds that it was an opportunity to respect the Civil War dead by beautifying their graves. The first Decoration Day was observed on May 30, 1868. Amid the festival, Gen. James Garfield made a discourse at Arlington National Cemetery before 5,000 participants who had come to help embellish the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate fighters. Memorial day remembers those brave hearts and thanks them all for the good deed they had done. We’ve compiled best Happy Memorial day quotes and sayings, remembrance quotes, memorial day sentiments, memorial day messages for loved one, memorial day tribute quotes, memorial day words of appreciation from Presidents, Memorial Day Thank You Quotes, Memorial Day Quotes for My Dad, Memorial Day Quotes by Billy Graham.

Happy Memorial Day Quotes and Sayings

 

• Every memorial in its time has a different goal. Maya Lin

 

• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. ~Bob Riley

 

• Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ~Robert Byrne

 

• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ~Harold MacMillan

 

• We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization. ~Paul Craig Roberts

 

• Overall our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead. ~Will Carleton

 

• As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation’s wars. ~John M. McHugh

 

• Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. ~George R.R. Martin

 

• The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words ‘Never Forget’ become irksome eventually. ~Howard Jacobson

 

• On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms. ~Bill Flores

 

• I am the living dead, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne comes home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave. ~Ron Kovic

 

• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. ~Doc Hastings

 

• On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men, and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. ~Eric Burdon

 

• ‘Memorial Day’ is about ‘spring break’ girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It’s also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing. ~Josh Fox

 

• The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom. ~Michelle Franklin

 

• On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. ~Danica Patrick

 

• Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, it’s honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. ~Pete Hegseth

 

• Memorial Day is all about celebrating the lives of the men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. The United States is made great because of their heroism. Their lives are remembered, honored, and celebrated by all of us, including the friends, family, and fellow service members who knew them best. ~Jan Schakowsky

 

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Memorial Day Thank You Quotes | Short Memorial Day Tribute Sayings

 

• We praise the perished soldiers and appreciate their sacrifice. ~Anonymous

 

• Thank you for serving our country and protecting our freedoms! ~Anonymous

 

• Thank you to all our soldiers who have given of themselves for our freedom! ~Anonymous

 

• Thank you to all those who have guarded my freedom and peace in my beloved country. ~Anonymous

 

• We remember your service and will keep giving thanks to all courageous people in uniforms. ~Anonymous

 

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

 

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

 

• Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten! ~Courteney Cox

 

• Thank you so much to all the servicemen and women who have gone above and beyond protecting our country. Happy Memorial Day ~Chloë Grace Moretz

 

• The contribution made by the soldiers in bringing freedom to America is beyond expression. Let us thank them for their courage and promise to follow the legacy. ~Anonymous

 

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Memorial Day Quotes from Presidents

 

• “For the love of country, they accepted death.” — James A. Garfield

 

• “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

 

• Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

 

• They and we are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

 

• “I don’t have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.” – President Ronald Reagan

 

• “A people that value its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” – President Bill Clinton

 

• “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

 

• “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.”- Benjamin Harrison

 

• “On this Memorial Day, it is right for us to remember the living and the dead for whom the call of their country has meant much pain and sacrifice”, “Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.”- Lyndon Johnson, 1966

 

• “If I do not [return], my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, nor that, when my last breath escapes me on the battle-field, it will whisper your name. ” ­― Major Sullivan Ballou

 

• “Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.” –― President Harry S. Truman

 

• “They didn’t want to go to war, they didn’t want to leave their families, but when their country asked them to, they did, because they thought it was the right thing to do.” ― Norman Schwarzkopf

 

• Valley Forge has come indeed to be a symbol in American life. It is more than the name for a place, more than the scene of a military episode, more than just a critical event in history. Freedom was won here by fortitude, not by the flash of the sword.- Herbert Hoover, 1931

 

• This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.- Richard Nixon, 1974

 

• Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.- George W. Bush, 2005

 

• Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.- Richard Nixon, 1974

 

• Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the white markers of places like Arlington National Cemetery. And may God keep us ever grateful.- George W. Bush, 2003

 

• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.- Woodrow Wilson, 1914

 

• It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.- Herbert Hoover, 1931

 

• 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, 1961

 

• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” — Bill Clinton

 

• “They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.” — Woodrow Wilson

 

• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” – President Bill Clinton

 

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

 

• “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” – President Thomas Jefferson

 

• “You fought for freedom in foreign lands, knowing it would protect our freedom at home. Today, freedom advances all around the world, and for the first time in all human history, more than half the world’s people choose their own leaders. Yes, America has made your sacrifice matter.”-Bill Clinton, 2000

 

• “I don’t have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.” – President Ronald Reagan

 

• “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.” – President John F. Kennedy

 

• “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.” — Barack Obama

 

• “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country” ― George S. Patton Jr.

 

• “True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” ― Norman Schwarzkopf

 

• “Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.” — George H. W. Bush

 

• “They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.” — Woodrow Wilson

 

• “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – President Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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Memorial Day Quotes for My Dad

 

• “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.”

 

• “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.”

 

• “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

 

• “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

• “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” – Antonio Porchia

 

• It never gets easy daddy, it just gets different each day as we try to adjust to your leaving us so soon. We miss you so much.

 

• You will forever remain alive in our hearts and memories daddy, and though we are learning to live without you we still miss you so much.

 

• No matter how many years go by, the pain of your death never diminishes. Dad, I miss you so much.

 

• “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”- Jane Austen, Pride, and Prejudice

 

• They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.- William Penn

 

• To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die. – Thomas Campbell

 

• The life of the dead is placed in the heart of the living. – Cicero

 

• Dad, I’ve been thinking about you on this Memorial Day. Our times together, your wisdom, your guidance, your love for the Nation, everything. I didn’t know that life would be this empty without you. miss you!

 

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Memorial Day Quotes From Billy Graham

 

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

 

• “Aspire to be a hero than merely appear one.”

 

• “I won’t forget the men who died who gave that right to me.”

 

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

 

• “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”

 

• “I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”

 

• “The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” – Billy Graham

 

• “God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.” – Billy Graham

 

• I’ve become an old man now. And I’ve preached all over the world. And the older I get, the more I cling to that hope that I started with many years ago, and proclaimed it in many languages to many parts of the world.”

 

• “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.” -Billy Graham

 

• “Tears shed for self-are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.” -Billy Graham

 

• “Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders.” -Billy Graham

 

• “A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.” -Billy Graham

 

• “Faith, more than fighting, can change the course of events today.” -Billy Graham

 

• “I don’t need a successor-only willing hand to accept the torch for a new generation.” -Billy Graham

 

• “No, I don’t know the future, but I do know this: the best is yet to be! Heaven awaits us, and that will be far, far more glorious than anything we can ever imagine. -Billy Graham

 

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