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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1733
AUTHOR: Author unknown
QUOTATION: These endured all and gave all that justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.
ATTRIBUTION: Author unknown. Normandy Chapel, inscription on the exterior of the lintel of the chapel.—American Battle Monuments Commission, Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, p. 16 (1975, rev. 1984).

This World War II memorial inscription is very similar to the World War I memorial inscription at Oise-Aisne Cemetery: These endured all and gave that honor and justice might prevail and that the world might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.—American Battle Monuments Commission, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, p. 9 (1978).
SUBJECTS: Soldiers