Some Beautiful Quotes About Memorial Day

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude." - Jeff Miller

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

"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men." - Minot J. Savage

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

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

"Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies." - Jennifer Granholm

"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." - William Havard

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

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission." - John F. Kennedy

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton