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    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

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    Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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    One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

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    On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

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    On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

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    Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

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    Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

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    Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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    Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

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    Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

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    Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

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    So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

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    Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

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    Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

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    So long as there are men, there will be wars.

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    Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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    Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

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    Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

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    The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

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    Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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    The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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    The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

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    The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

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    The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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    Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

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    The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

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    The real war will never get in the books.

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    There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

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    The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

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    They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

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    The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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    The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

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    Their own souls rose and cried Alarum when they heard the sudden wail Of stricken freedom and along the gale Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.

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    Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

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    The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

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    There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

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    They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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    They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

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    This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

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    This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

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    They saw their injured country's woe.

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    Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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    To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

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    True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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    We have met the enemy and they are ours.

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    They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.

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    To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

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    Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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    Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

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    We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.