Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? – Henry Ward Beecher

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Memorial Day
category

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. – W.J. Cameron

Category:
Memorial Day

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Memorial Day

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

Category:
Memorial Day

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Memorial Day

Random Quotes

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. – William Butler Yeats

Category:
Age

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. – Arthur Christopher Benson

Category:
Self-Discovery

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. – Constantin Brancusi

Category:
God

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects. – Joshua Lederberg

Category:
communication