Quotes of the Day - Memorial Day Weekend 2006

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag. - Charles M. Province

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?'…If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams

Christ said : Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do… - Michael Novak

(photo borrowed from Arlington Cemetary's website)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - The real JFK

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mills

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. - Dwight David Eisenhower

You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight. - 'Resist', by Rush

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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