Memorial Day Quotes

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
Muhammad

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides

Bravery never goes out of fashion
William Makepeace Thackeray

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.
Aaron Kilbourn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.
Francis A. Walker

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
John Wayne

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
Hayden Fry

The United States Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth.
Thomas E. Ricks

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.
Hugh Shelton

A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.
General James F. Amos

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
Peter Pace

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.
Lane Evans

There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.
Gen. William Thornson

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.
Gen. Charles C. Krulak

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom is never free.
Author Unknown

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
Thomas Dunn English

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Author Unknown

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
George Patton

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Earlene Larson Jenks