Today is Memorial Day and while it is the unofficial kick off of summer, we remember the men and women in the military who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

That being said, there have been some pretty famous quotes describing the day and what it really means.

  1. "A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer." - Novalis
  2. "I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance." - James A. Autry
  3. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell
  4. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. "Bravery never goes out of fashion." - William Makepeace Thackeray
  6. "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
  7. "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
  8. "We come not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them." - Francis A. Walker

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