I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. – Henry David Thoreau

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke