The final resting places of great historic figures are sometimes adorned with quotations from the deceased. Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate Cemetery in London bears the inscription “Workers of All Lands, Unite.” William Blake’s bears a long quotation from Blake’s poem, “Jerusalem.”
Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, died Wednesday at the age of 100. I wonder what quote would be appropriate for his grave?
Maybe the instructions Kissinger gave his deputy Alexander Haig for the carpet bombing of Cambodia in 1970—“anything that flies on anything that moves.” That one’s nice and pithy. It would leave plenty of room for all the usual “beloved husband and father” stuff.
