Respected Americans

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" Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"And they who for their country die
Shall fill an honored grave,
For glory lights the soldier's tomb,
And beauty weeps the brave."
J. R. Drake, To the Defenders of New Orleans

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
George Washington

"We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected."
"Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit."
Harry S. Truman

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar Bradley

" We build and defend not for our generation alone. We defend the foundations laid by our fathers. We build a life for generations yet unborn. We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, May, 1940

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson, Epigrams

[SEATJERKER]

..."Keep your right hand high, and your ass off the canvas"...