Band Quote by Abram Joseph Ryan

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

— Lucretius

“The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten”

— George Orwell

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for…

— Alan Jackson

I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.

— Stephen R. Lawhead

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

— Francis A Walker

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

— Elbert Hubbard

The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Dr. Jowett said, 'We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be heralds of the passion. We must…

— St. Thomas Church