On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! – Thomas William Parsons
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. – Daniel Webster
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? – Henry Ward Beecher
For love of country they accepted death… – James A. Garfield
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. – Benjamin Disraeli
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. – W.J. Cameron
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! – Lucy Larcom
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. – Henry Ward Beecher
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. – Schuyler Colfax
We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. – Francis A. Walker
