"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."~ Ronald Reagan

"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

"The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all"~ Leo Rosten

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."~ Marcus Aurelius

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."~ George S. Patton

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."~ Douglas MacArthur

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."~ Abraham Lincoln

"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."~ Richard Nixon

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."~ George Washington

"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

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadslide, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming-wow- what a ride"!  ~Joe Kopp

"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry." ~ Gen. George Armstrong Custer

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."~ Erwin Rommel

"War is hell."~ William Sherman

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
~George S. Patton

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ~John Lennon

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." ~
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything." ~ Harry S. Truman

"No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." - - - Ronald Reagan  

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower