Great Memorial Day Quotes

Memorial Day is a national holiday that is celebrated in America on the last Monday in May. Memorial Day is a day to pay tribute to American Soldiers who have fallen in battle. Here are a few quotes to share on this holiday.

"Each man is a hero and oracle to somebody."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain

"And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
Billy Graham

"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart."
Albert Einstein

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
Calvin Coolidge

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace"
Saint Augustine

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace"
Martin Luther

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

So long as there are men there will be wars. "
Albert Einstein