FAMOUS PATRIOTIC QUOTES!!

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
-- Nathan Hale (American Patriot)

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-- Thomas Jefferson (former U.S. President)

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (former U.S. President)

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (former U.S. President)

"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."
--George W. Bush (in his Address to the US after hijack attacks on the US World Trade Centers and Pentagon, September 11, 2001)

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
--Thomas Paine (American political theorist, writer)

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
--Thomas Paine

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
--Patrick Henry (March 23,1775)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
--The Declaration of Independence (1776)

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
--Abraham Lincoln (former U.S. President)

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
--Judge Learned Hand

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (former U.S. President)

"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (former U.S. President)

"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag."
--Anonymous

"Freedom - No word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed to be nurtured, blessed more the giver, damned more it's destroyer, or come closer to being God's will on earth. And I think that's worth fighting for, if necessary."
-- General Omar N. Bradley

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
--General Douglas MacArthur

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill

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