"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case; you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston Churchill
Familiarize yourself with the chains of
bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on
the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and
become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who is void of virtuous
attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for
his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his
country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his
private connections.
Samuel Adams
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other
bastard die for his.
- General George
S. Patton
Let this be the distinctive mark of an
American that in cases of commotion, he enlists himself under no man's banner,
inquires for no man's name, but repairs to the standard of the laws. Do this,
and you need never fear anarchy or tyranny. Your government will be perpetual.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere
and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor
with all that is good."
-George Washington
Some see private enterprise
as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are
those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling
the wagon.
-- Winston
Churchill
The
tree of liberty must
be refreshed from
time to time, with
the blood of patriots and tyrants.- Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the
inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a
degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
"Government is not reason, it is not
eloquence – it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful
master."--George Washington
"Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.' " George Orwell
"War is evil, but it is often the lesser
evil." George Orwell
“We live in a wondrous time in which the
strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because
of his audacity.” Otto von Bismark
No man is entitled to the blessings of
freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.--Douglas MacArthur
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why
most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw
Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved
and oppressed subjects. Leo Tolstoy
Those who expect to reap the blessings of
freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas
Paine
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.--
Winston Churchill
We easily forget that smog is the price of
freedom of our streets from manure, and from the flies and diseases it brought.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere
and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor
with all that is good."
--George Washington
