"If you can read this thank a teacher, if you're reading it in English thank a veteran." - bumper sticker
" We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. " - George Orwell
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." - Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living." - John F. Kennedy
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." - Samuel Johnson