Banner Quote by Jefferson Davis

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set…

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with…

— Noam Chomsky

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly…

— Adam Hochschild

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether…

— Gilda Radner

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

— Will Carleton

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable,…

— Jonathan Stroud

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it an incantation…

— T.S. Eliot

The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die;…

— Polybius

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy”

— Jessica Dovey