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"While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country."

Allen West on Memorialday

More quotes about Memorialday

  • "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

    John F. Kennedy on Memorialday

  • "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

    Mark Twain on Memorialday

  • "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

    George Washington on Memorialday

  • "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

    James A. Baldwin on Memorialday

  • "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

    George William Curtis on Memorialday

More quotes by Allen West

  • "One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality."

  • "A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

  • "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else."

  • "We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America."

  • "Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that."

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