It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows w...ho lead the Memorial Day parades.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms, when necessar...y, to make [the American] dream a reality. We can be proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our nation and our way of life endure. And we are free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they [the American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, ...the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. I...t created in this country what had never existed before--a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will... once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep... it a feast by an ordinance for ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace,... Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living; And a child that is born on a Christmas day, Is fair and wise, good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And whether it is Thursday, or the day is stormy, With thunder and rain, or the birds attack each other,... We have rolled into another dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »