“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.”
“The living sinners on deadly ground.”
“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”
“In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.”
“The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.”
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”