Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off the start of summer, and it's filled with lots of time spent outdoors and even special Memorial Day activities like cookouts featuring the best Memorial Day recipes. But while you're enjoying a summer barbecue or even visiting a lake on your day off, it's important to pay tribute to those who earned our freedom. These patriotic quotes will help get you in the mood and keep in mind the real meaning and history of Memorial Day: to honor all the men and women who have died while serving our country.
Trying to get yourself in the right mindset for the day? Add some patriotic country songs to your playlist and check out these super patriotic quotes.
Barack Obama
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
John F. Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Ronald Reagan
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
Bob Dylan
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Gen. George S. Patton
"It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing."
Frederick Douglass
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The legacy of heroes—the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
James Bryce
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
Henry James
"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."
Peter Marshall
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
Robert Frost
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Claudia Pemberton
"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels."
Benjamin Franklin
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."
Harry S. Truman
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!”
William Faulkner
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
Trying to get yourself in the right mindset for the day? Add some patriotic country songs to your playlist and check out these super patriotic quotes.
Barack Obama
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
John F. Kennedy
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Ronald Reagan
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
Bob Dylan
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Gen. George S. Patton
"It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing."
Frederick Douglass
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The legacy of heroes—the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
James Bryce
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
Henry James
"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."
Peter Marshall
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
Robert Frost
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Claudia Pemberton
"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels."
Benjamin Franklin
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."
Harry S. Truman
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!”
William Faulkner
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."