Why We Celebrate Memorial Day

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883


Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln


How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
~Maya Angelou


“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave” ~Muhammad



“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.” ~Albert Einstein


“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” ~Norman Schwarzkopf


Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers


There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley


“The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.”
~Thucydides


“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.”
~Arthur Ashe