Culture Quote by Michael G. Kramer

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take…

— Abraham Lincoln

“world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the…

— Jeff Shaara

“Too many of our fathers and brothers, our friends and neighbors, have died defending their homes and families. Their spirits have gone to the…

— Matthew Palmer

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“The death of this honorable man upon this battlefield leaves all of us the poorer for his loss, yet so much the richer for…

— Walter C. Conner

“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of…

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

“No one is meant to fight a war against the enemy in vain. God delights in granting our request for redemptive spoils of our…

— Kristen M. Smeltzer

“…no greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility…”

— Richard Hakluyt

“More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest…

— Steve Alten

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new…

— John F. Kennedy

“Not whence you come shall henceforth constitute your honor, but whither you are going. Your will and your foot which has a will to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means…

— Niccolò Machiavelli