Memorial Day this year falls on Monday, May 26. Memorial Day is the U.S. federal holiday where the men and women who have died while serving in the Armed Forces are remembered and honored. Each year the holiday is celebrated on the final Monday in the month of May. The day is especially poignant for people who have a family member or friend who succumbed in the line of duty, but all Americans should feel a sense of gratitude and respect on this holiday.

1. "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."
- General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

2. "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
- President Bill Clinton

3. "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
- Maya Angelou

4. "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton

5. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Wendell Phillips

6. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain

7. "Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice."
- President Barack Obama

8. "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. "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."
- President John F. Kennedy

10. "And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave."
- Joseph Rodman Drake

11. "We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them."
- Francis A. Walker

12. "The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men."
- Minot J. Savage

13. "Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices."
- President Harry S. Truman

14. "For love of country, they accepted death."
- President James A. Garfield