I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

Please submit your comments or questions to the contact link below. Your feedback is much appreciated and so are your quote submissions! Thanks in advance.

1."Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."
--Daniel Webster

2."They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, and their names are engraven on honor's bright crest."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

4."Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms."
--Thomas Bailey Aldrich

5."I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did."
--Benjamin Harrison

6."Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
--Lucy Larcom

7."All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."
--Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899