27 Quotes for Memorial Day

Memorial Day is more than cookouts and traveling. The day is set aside to honor all those brave men and women who did not come home. If you are looking for a small way to pay your respect to those who have fallen, add Memorial Day quotes to your social media posts.

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Quotes for Your Memorial Day Social Media Posts

  1. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
  2. “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”- Barack Obama
  3. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.”- George S. Patton
  4. For love of country, they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”- James A. Garfield
  5. “America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.”- Claudia Pemberton
  6. “…And if words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and to final sacrifice.” – Ronald Reagan
  7. “May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.” – Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
  8. “This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veterans Day, it’s not a celebration, it is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.” – Tamara Bolton
  9. “Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.” – Harry S. Truman
  10. “It’s better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.” – Gen. George S. Patton
  11. “If you want to thank a soldier, be the kind of American worth fighting for.” – Unknown
  12. “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”- John Adams
  13. “Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.” – Jennifer M. Granholm
  14. “Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”- Wallace Bruce
  15. “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” – Lee Greenwood
  16. “The legacy of heroes — the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  17. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
  18. “The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.” – Minot J. Savage
  19. “The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” – Jeff Miller
  20. “And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” – Joseph Rodman Drake
  21. “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  22. “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” – Unknown
  23. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
  24. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  25. “The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.” – Thomas Campbell
  26. “I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.”– John Thune
  27. “I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”– Bob Riley

Happy Memorial Day!

Author: Rebecca C.

I am just a person who loves to photograph and write about the world around me.

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