“ Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet
“ As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish. 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 a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery stone… Stephen Vincent Benet
“ Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word. Stephen Vincent Benet
