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Memorial Day
On this day to remember those men and women who gallantly paid the ultimate price to vouchsafe our freedom and American way of life, Offered
here to you these timeless words about bravery, honor, sacrifice:
The Day is done
Gone the sun
From the lakes
From the hills
From the sky
All is well
Safely rest
God is nigh
— TAPS
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We are met on a great battlefield. … We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have hallowed it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN, GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
— GEORGES BATAILLE
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
— MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
— GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.
— PATRICK HENRY PEARSE
The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.
— ANNA JULIA COOPER
This embattled shore, portal of freedom, is forever hallowed by the ideas, valor and sacrifice of our fellow countrymen.
— MONUMENT INSCRIPTION ON NORMANDY COAST
Any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
— ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I called to my men: "This is a good day to die. Follow me."
— LOW DOG, OGLALA WARRIOR
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious teaching — sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual uplift which will alone sustain him.
— GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Our fathers who have maintained our country in freedom for us have offered us their life in sacrifice; so let them be an example to you!
— EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I
I consider it no sacrifice to die for my country. In my mind we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died.
— GEN. GEORGE PATTON
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
— JOHN STUART MILL
Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost.
— JOSEPH HOPKINSON
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
— SOPHOCLES
It is held
That valor is the chiefest virtue, and
Most dignifies the haver.
— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If the state is at peace and is as well-governed as a human community can be, then the citizen's loyalty to his country, his services to it in the forms of energy, devotion, and funds, in general coincide with his own vital interests. The fatherland repays his loyalty by giving him safety, justice, and sometimes even freedom. In fulfilling his patriotic duties he is not performing an act of love. Only when the fatherland is in danger does his giving become a sacrifice, his serving a suffering, his loyalty a love.
— JOHAN HUIZINGA
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others.
— WINSTON CHURCHILL
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.
— SIR WALTER SCOTT
Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.
— INSCRIPTION ON THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS, ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
— CHIEF AUPUMUT OF THE MOHICANS
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.
— JOHN MCCRAE
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