Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.