Samuel Gompers - Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Benjamin Franklin - It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Frederick Douglass - The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Henry Ward Beecher - A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.”

Will Carleton - Over all our happy country over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes–is our Army of the Dead.

Will Carleton - “Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, is a band of noble heroes– is our Army of the Dead.”

Will Carleton - Over all our happy country - over all our nation spread, is a band of national heroes - is our army of the dead.

Will Carleton - "Over all our happy country - over all our nation spread, is a band of national heroes - is our army of the dead."

Elie Wiesel - Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

John Henry Newman - To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

Voltaire - To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion

Samuel Johnson - No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson - The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Terry Pratchett - Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Martin Luther - At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.