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Helen Keller - So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good
Cynthia Ozick - We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude
Thomas Bailey Aldrich - With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.
Gen. George S. Patton - It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.
Sidney Sheldon - My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Bob Dylan - I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Thomas William Parsons - On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
Richard Watson Gilder - Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
John F. Kennedy - As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Courteney Cox - Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!
Aristotle - You will never do anything in this world without courage.
Calvin Coolidge - Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion
Benjamin Disraeli - “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Adlai Stevenson II - “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
G.K. Chesterson - "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”
Elmer Davis - “This nation will remain the land of the only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Claudia Pemberton - “America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.”
Norman Schwarzkopf - "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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt - Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Minot J. Savage - ”The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
James Allen - "No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
Winston Churchill - "Never was so much owed by so many few.”
Benjamin Disraeli - The legacy of heroes — the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example
Elie Wiesel - Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Maya Angelou - How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes
St. Ambrose - No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks
Bob Riley - I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
George S. Patton - It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.
Elmer Davis - This nation will remain the land of the only so long as it is the home of the brave
Sgt. Major Bill Paxton - May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn't
Adlai Stevenson - Patriotism is not short, frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Norman Schwarzkopf - 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.
Will Carleton - Over all our happy country over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes–is our Army of the Dead.
Mark Twain - Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mary Roach - Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history
Wallace Bruce - "Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”
Thomas Campbell - “The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.”
George S. Patton - "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.”
Bob Riley - "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”
Martin Luther King Jr - "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Helen Keller - So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Elie Wisel - Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future.
Nick Lampson - “There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.”
Barack Obama - While the nature of war has changed...the values that drive our brave men and women in uniform remain constant: honor, courage, selflessness.
Elmer Davis - This nation will remain the land of the only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Will Carleton - “Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead.”
John Adams - “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”
William J. Clinton - “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
RJ Heller - In the aftermath, we are because they were.
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