The people who died here were victims of one of the cruelest visitations of evil this nation has ever seen, ... But we offer them today not pity but honor, for as much as any soldier who ever fought in any war, they paid the price for our freedom.
Quotes about visitations (3 Quotes)
Perhaps most of us feel that we could accept death for ourselves and for those we love if it did not often seem to come with such untimeliness. But we rebel when it so little considers our wishes or our readiness. But we may well ask ourselves when would we be willing to part with or to part from those we love And who is there among us whose judgment we would trust to measure out our lives Such decisions would be terrible for mere men to make. But fortunately we are spared making them fortunately they are made by wisdom higher than ours. And when death makes its visitations among us, inconsolable grief and rebellious bitterness should have no place. There must be no quarrel with irrevocable facts. Even when death comes by events which seem unnecessary and avoidable. We must learn to accept what we cannot help.
Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.