If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
He is not dead, he is just - away.
This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther
There are a lot of war memorials around the UK. It's usually a part of the war memorials. I loved the way The Glorious Dead sounded. It's kind of a strange thing to say. There's nothing particularly glorious about being dead. It sounded like a strange, horror film. It just grew from there, really. It seemed quite apt for the record. We're kind of obsessed with zombie movies and horror films. It seemed like it just fit, at the time.
From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
But monument themselves memorials need.
The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.