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

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow'd mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung,
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.
~William Collins

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ~Schuyler Colfax

The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.
--WEB Dubois

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
--James Baldwin