I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
“In the end, we all inherit a stone, after life’s waves have rolled over us—and hopefully, she’ll write upon it” — John j Geddes Copy Share Image
Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but… — George Henry Boker Copy Share Image
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
