Memorial Day Poems Quotes

Fold him in his country’s stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.

They saw their injured country’s woe.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
living; tears for the dead.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

But fame is theirs – and future days
On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell – when cold neglect is dead –
“These for their country fought and bled.”