These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. – Schuyler Colfax
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. – Daniel Webster
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. – Stendhal
The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use. – Dan Lipinski
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
