Happy memorial day Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed…

— Mark Twain

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

— John French Sloan

“And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in…

— Gene Wolfe

They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere.

— John Luckey McCreery

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

— James A. Michener

... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be…

— Gertrude Bell

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies…

— James Randi

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only…

— Abraham Lincoln

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery…

— Babur

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

— Natalie Clifford Barney