I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead
Hats off, gentlemen — if he were still alive we should not be here.
Pass this bill as the memorial to our late beloved President.
The Civil Rights Bill of 1964
Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.
I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.
Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.
Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.
I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a good note to go out.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
