Memorial Day Heroes

Necessity makes the best soldiers. - Josephus

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz

The only certain freedom's in departure. - Robert Frost

Lawyers are the foot soldiers of our Constitution. - Rennard Strickland

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. - Pericles

Marketing strategy is a lot like military strategy. - Liddell Hart

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie. - Brian Spellman

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling

Soldiers win the battles and generals get the credit. - Napoleon Bonaparte

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. - Aaron Kilbourn

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. - Ralph Richardson

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. - Otto von Bismarck

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. - Martin Luther

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. - Henri Barbusse

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. - Mark Twain

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. - Alphonse Allais

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. - William Glasser

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - Bertrand Russell

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead. - Voltaire

I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

Does America really need to be the best at everything? You already dominate the world in economics, military power and obesity. - Trevor Noah

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato