1) "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~ President John F. Kennedy
2) "Americans never quit." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
3) "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." ~ Nathan Hale
4) "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by
men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that
gains the victory." ~ General George S. Patton
5) "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism." ~ Bob Riley
6) "Patriotism [is] a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose." ~ Frank Knox
7) "Duty, Honor,
Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to
be, what you can be, what you will be." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
8) "True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going." ~ Robert Reich
9) "Better to fight for something than live for nothing." ~ General George S. Patton
10) "Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do
your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do
less." ~ General Robert E. Lee
11) "A man does what he must - in spite of personal
consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that
is the basis of all human morality." ~ Winston Churchill
12) "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to
know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is
afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble
and gentle in victory." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
13) "Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death." ~ General Omar N. Bradley
14) "History has taught us over and over again that
freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors
of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces.
Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and
sacrifice." ~ Tim Pawlenty
15) "Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
16) "It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can." ~ R. Lee Ermey
17) "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle:
we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to
live." ~ General Omar N. Bradley
18) "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it
is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of
war." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
19) "The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future." ~ Brigadier General Joshua Chamberlain
20) "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." ~ General George S. Patton
21) "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." ~ General Norman Schwarzkopf
22) "Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women." ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
23) "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." ~ Napoleon Hill
24) "They died hard, those savage men - like wounded
wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk.
And I loved them." ~ General Douglas MacArthur
25) "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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we
cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to
be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain -- 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."
~ President Abraham Lincoln
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