Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor …

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undiv…

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Life was a storm to wander through.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champm…

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

- Stephen Vincent Benet