Memorial Day Poems Quotes by James A. Baldwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Minot Judson Savage, Rudyard Kipling, John A. Logan, Bob Riley and many others.
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.
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.
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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.
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
