Memorial Day Quotes 2016: 33 Sayings To Honor Our Fallen Heroes Of The US Armed Forces

Freedom comes at the cost of many lives. On Memorial Day we like to remember and thank those fallen heroes that died fighting for our country. This honorary day is celebrated across the United States of America on the last Monday in May. Memorial Day tends to be confused with Veterans Day. The former is a remembrance of all those men and women that lost their life while serving in the armed forces, while the latter celebrates those who served in the U.S. military. On this day many people visit cemeteries and memorials to honor all of those heroes with many volunteers placing an American flag on each grave. The U.S. flag is raised to the top of the staff and then lowered to half staff, where it stays until noon. After that it is raised to full-staff for the rest of the day, which is symbolic as the flag rises and so is their memory by the living who promise to not let their sacrifice be in vain and continue to fight for liberty and justice for all. Take a read at some inspiring quotes on this Memorial Day:

1. Barack Obama: "On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died."

2. John F. Kennedy: "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

3. Robin Hayes: "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."

4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: "Heroism is latent in every human soul. However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all self-denials; privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself ? For some great good, dimly seen but dearly held."

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

6. John Lennon: "When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace."

7. Socrates: "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

8. Ronald Reagan: "If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

9. George Washington: "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

10. George William Curtis: "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers and woods, it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

11. Artistotle: "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

12. 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."

13. Christopher Reeve: "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strenght to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

14. Winston Churchill: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

15. Benjamin Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

16. Abraham Lincoln: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

17. Harriet Tubman: "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."

18. Plato: "Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

19. Debi Mazer: "A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares."

20. Ricky Martin: "Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity."

21. Mahatma Gandhi: "To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."

22. Dwight D. Eisenhower: "There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure."

23. Bob Marley: "Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

24. Thomas Bailey Aldrich: "With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green."

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

26. Thomas William Parsons: "On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!"

27. Daniel Webster: "Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."

28. Arthur Ashe: "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

29. Henry Ward Beecher: "Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?"

30. Novalis: "A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer."

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

32. Carol Lynn Pearson: "Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves."

33. Thucydides: "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."