50+ Memorial Day Quotes 2025

Here are 50+ Memorial Day quotes for 2025 to honor and remember the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to the United States:

Memorial Day Quotes 2025 Quotes

“Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.” – Barack Obama
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
“We don’t know them all, but we owe them all.” – Unknown
“Home of the free, because of the brave.” – Unknown
“Their sacrifice was great, their dedication total, their heroism supreme.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.” – Barack Obama
“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” – Unknown
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.” – John F. Kennedy
“All gave some, some gave all.” – Howard William Osterkamp
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.” – Mary Roach
“There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.” – Nick Lampson
“They died to protect the values we live by today.” – Unknown
“Let their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.” – Daniel Webster
“A soldier never dies until they are forgotten.” – Unknown
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
“For love of country they accepted death.” – James A. Garfield

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” – George S. Patton
“Memorial Day: celebrate, honor, remember.” – Unknown
“True patriotism isn’t about waving a flag, it’s about living your life so that your country is better off because you’re in it.” – Unknown
“Heroes never die. They live on in the hearts of those who remember them.” – Unknown
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
“Their sacrifice reminds us to treasure our freedoms.” – Unknown
“Bravery never goes out of fashion.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.” – Minot J. Savage

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana
“Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen and continuing to serve their legacy.” – Unknown
“Let every nation know… we shall pay any price, bear any burden… to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” – Jean Baptiste Massieu
“We live in freedom today because of the brave souls who stood up for it yesterday.” – Unknown
“A moment of silence is the least we can offer for those who gave everything.” – Unknown
“Let us strive to live worthy of their sacrifice.” – Unknown
“Their memories are the stars that guide us.” – Unknown