"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.
· James B. Upham and F. M. Bellamy 1892

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
· John F. Kennedy

" 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

"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."
· John F. Kennedy

"The free world must prove itself worthy of its own past."
· Dwight D. Eisenhower

"America! America! God shed His grace on thee!"
· Katherine L. Bates, America the Beautiful

"The land of the free and the home of the brave."
· Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
· Sinclair Lewis

"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!"
· Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Building of the Ship

"…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
· Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

"The world must be made safe for democracy."
· Woodrow Wilson, Address to Congress, April, 1917

"I have not yet begun to fight."
· John Paul Jones, at sea battle, September, 1779

"Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight."
· Milton, Paradise Lost, VI

"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."
· Woodrow Wilson, May 10, 1915

"My angel-his name is Freedom-
Choose him to be your King;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing."
· Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston Hymn

"Aye, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod!
They left unstained what there they found-
Freedom to worship God."
· Felicia D. Hemans, Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on."
· Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic

"When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!"
· James Whittier, Ichabod

"No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
· The Gospel of Luke 9:62

"When Liberty is gone,
Life grows insipid and has lost its relish."
· Addison, Cato II, 3

"The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants."
· Bertrand Barere, 1792

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
· Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Bill of Rights

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
· II Corinthians 3:17

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
· Wendell Phillips, Public Opinion, 1852

"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

"He who loves not his country, can love nothing."
· Byron, The Two Foscari, III, 1

"The patriot's blood's the seed of Freedom's tree."
· Thomas Campbell, To the Spanish Patriots

"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

"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
The boys are marching,
Cheer up, comrades, they will come,
And beneath the starry flag
We shall breathe the air again
Of the free land in our beloved home."
· George F. Root, 1862

"Tremble ye tyrants, for ye cannot die."
· Jacques Delille, L'Immortalite de lame

E pluribus unum, (One from many.)
· American Motto (taken from Virgil)

"United we stand, divided we fall."
· Motto of the State of Kentucky

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation, evermore!"
· O. W. Holmes, Voyage of the Good Ship Union

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
· Daniel Webster, 1830

"…and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting."
· Job 39:25

"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
· Gen. William T. Sherman, 1880

"Not with dreams but with blood and iron,
Shall a nation be molded at last."
· Swinburne, A Word for the Country

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
· Proverbs 28:1

"There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked."
· Isaiah 57:21

"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."
· Winston Churchill

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly…"
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause."
· Theodore Roosevelt

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

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
"We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back."
· Vince Lombardi

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
· Abraham Lincoln

"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history, If it is weak, it suffers world history."
· Albert Schwietzer

"Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside of all of us."
· Lech Walesa

"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

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
· Margaret Thatcher

"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…"
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
· Thomas Jefferson

"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

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want.…The fourth is freedom from fear."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
· Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equitable and lasting terms."
"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings."
"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
· Andrew Jackson

"We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard."
"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived."
· John F. Kennedy

"My attitude has always been…if it's worth playing, it's worth paying the price to win."
· Paul Bear Bryant

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
· Woodrow Wilson

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
"Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
"I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage."
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
"Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days, will bear the fruits of victory."
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
· Douglas MacArthur

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
"The fixed determination to acquire the warrior soul, and to have acquired it to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory."
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"
· George S. Patton, Jr.

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
"We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship". This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom". This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"Freedom has its life in the hearth, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."
"May we pursue that right - without self-righteousness. May we know unity - without conformity. May we grow in strength - without pride of self. May we, in our dealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more."
· Dwight D. Eisenhower

"a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance…
a time for war and a time for peace."
Ecclesiastes 3: 3,4,8b.

"Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place."
2 Chronicles 7:15

"Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Do everything without complaining or arguing."
Philippians 2:4.14

"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 3:13b,14

"As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God. So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God."
Romans 14:11,12