Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 2083 |
AUTHOR: | Aeschylus (525456 |
QUOTATION: | I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970.Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309. |
SUBJECTS: | Youth |