Memorial Day Quotes

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

Attributed to George S. Patton

“If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”

Rupert Brooke

“Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!”

Rupert Brooke

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”

Wilfred Owen

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”

Wilfred Owen

“They went with songs to the battle, they were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.”

Laurence Binyon

“Here dead we lie because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung.”

A. E. Housman

“We cherish too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valour led.”

Moina Michael

“And now the Torch and Poppy Red we wear in honour of our dead.”

Moina Michael

“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, by all their country's wishes blest!”

William Collins

“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, but we left him alone with his glory.”

Charles Wolfe

“The boy stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled.”

Felicia Hemans

“Word over all, beautiful as the sky, beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost.”

Walt Whitman

“He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is named.”

William Shakespeare

“This story shall the good man teach his son.”

William Shakespeare

“Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war.”

Pericles

“It is a fine thing for a brave man to die when he has fallen among the front ranks while fighting for his homeland.”

Tyrtaeus

“I shall not wholly die.”

Horace

“Happy are you both! If my verse has any power, no day shall ever blot you from the memory of time.”

Virgil

“At the pyres of martyrs, fairs will gather every year; this alone will remain as the mark of those who died for the nation.”

Jagdamba Prasad Mishra 'Hitaishi'

“He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.”

The Bible (Psalm 46:9)

“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:8)

“The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.”

The Bible (Psalm 112:6)

“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.”

Wisdom of Solomon (3:1)

“Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.”

The Bible (2 Samuel 1:23)