Respected Americans

[bbeil]

All we have of freedom, all we use or know- this our fathers bought us long and long ago.

-Rudyard Kipling


After all- it's a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

-Will Rogers

Liberty does not consist, my fellow citizens, in mere declarations of the rights of man.
It consist in the translation of those declarations into definite actions.

-Woodrow Wilson

Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[janecallanan]

George Henry Boker (1823?1890)
?Freedom!? their battle-cry,?
?Freedom! or leave to die!?

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788?1824)
For freedom?s battle, once begun,
Bequeath?d by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.

Alfred Austin (1835?1913)
So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.

John Quincy Adams (1767?1848)
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For Freedom only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in Freedom?s hallowed shade

Abraham Lincoln (1809?1865)
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


Henrik Ibsen (1828?1906)
One should never put on one?s best trousers to go out in to fight for freedom.

To borrow from reeb.....enough!

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We all have been to war and we have done our part to keep the freedom in this counrtry some have payed all they have.so let us all remember "It is far easier to make war than to make peace". George Clemencear.
So if we must fight then it is best done quickly Ijust hope we don't go to war for the wrong reasons only time will tell.
happy vet day I'm out of here.
razz

[eMOM PAO]

Amen!

[bbeil]

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

- John F. Kennedy

We must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values privilages above its principles soon loses both.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is well that war is so terrible we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee


I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


razz

[bbeil]

Peace is a blessing, and like most blessing, it must be earned.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom lies in being bold.

-Robert Frost

[blues clues]

Patroitism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy De Maupassant


Patroitism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell

Patroitism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it

George Bernard Shaw

razz

[Boats]

If you want to keep your freedoms then you sometimes have to fight for them.

[blues clues]

boats I don't disagree with you but like John F.Kennedy said " Let us never negotiate out of fear, But let us never fear to negotiate."thats all I'm trying to say.
razz