Some of my favorite quotations:

"When you go home / Tell them for us and say / For your tomorrow / We gave our today"

-- Inscription on the cemetery gates at Iwo Jima.


"The fact is that America is a special country, my dear friend, a country to envy, of which to be jealous ..."

-- Oriana Fallaci.


"It's dancing to G-d's glorious music in the ballroom at the edge of eternity"

-- A jumpers description of skydiving to a "whuffo"

PS:
I live in french occupied Canada, but I prefer to see Old Glory on this page, since I never forget that it was American soldiers that liberated my mom from a forced labor camp.

"Those that turn their swords into plowshares end up plowing for those who don't"

The Lord your G-d will send the hornet (F-18) among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. Deuteronomy 7:22. (The New Testament just doesn't cut it.) Natan Sharansky, while in the gulag, loved to make jokes about the soviets to his interrogators: When Brezhnev heard about the American's putting a man on the moon he in a panic assembled all his cosmonauts and told them they would go to the sun. The cosmonauts objected that they would be incinerated. Brezhnev replied: "Do you think we at the Poliburo are crazy, we will send you at night.