169 Quotes About Memorial-day
- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.
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- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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It is important that we remember. It is vital we do more than just remember.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Because we weren’t there when the price was paid doesn’t mean that the price wasn’t paid. And if we don’t believe that, maybe we need to consider the solider who never came home so that we could.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Outwardly we might say we believe that liberty is a gift. But our belief that we have a ‘right’ to that ‘gift’ is the thing that’s certain to kill it.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Freedom is not license. For the former looks out for the good of ‘all’, while the latter looks out for the good of ‘me’.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I can be equipped for a cause or I can be committed to one. The former might win the battle, but the latter will win the war.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I can live out the entirety of my days and never take a stand. Yet, if this is true, I have in fact never lived out my days. Rather, I died without living at all.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never know you. And being one of those you never knew, I would give all I have to clasp your hand one single time, look into eyes that witnessed the bloodied carnage that results when freedom refuses to bow to chains of any kind, and simply say 'thank you.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.
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