"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice."
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"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
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"Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids."
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"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
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"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
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"The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
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"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."
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"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
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"I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did."
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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"The real war will never get in the books."
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"Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation."
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"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
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"Love for one's country is part of faith."
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"Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved."
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"Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected."
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"They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest."
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"We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war."
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"So long as there are men, there will be wars."
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