“Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors. The offering we bring to-day is due alike to the patriot soldiers dead and their noble comrades who still live; for, whether living or dead, whether in time or eternity, the loyal soldiers who imperiled all for country and freedom are one and inseparable.”
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1st February 1823) The Cadets. An Indian Sketch
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
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Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
“That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier’s wrist.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
On his visit to the deathbed of Marcel Proust, as quoted in "Cocteau: The Great Enchanter" by Edmund White Vogue (May 1984)
“There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.”
William Wordsworth book The Prelude
Bk. XI, l. 393.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
1940s