GREAT QUOTES about War and Peace and America to SUPPORT THE TROOPS -- to EMAIL to NON-FREepers

On this weekend that so many lies are being told about America, let's share this with everyone, get the truth out on the Net!

If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. -- Patrick Henry

For what are you willing to dedicate your life? To see this become a nation of disarmed slaves, subject to the whim of an armed, para-military police force? If so, then I am glad to discover I have finally found the person for whom I was long ago entrusted with a message. It was YOU, it turns out, whom Samuel Adams was addressing when he said at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen... Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."- T. Roosevelt

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill

For neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding wickedness; for that runs faster than death. -- Socrates, in Plato's Apology

"...[The President is authorized to] use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons." -- Senate Joint Resolution 23 and Public Law 107-40

"We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible." -- Ronald Reagan (1974)

"We are not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states, run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Ronald Reagan

The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court. -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The essence of war is violence; moderation in war is imbecility!" -- First Sea Lord, Sir John Fisher

"War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." -- Chairman Mao Tse-Tong, in his book "On Protracted War"

"Never give in. Never, never, never, never! Never yield in any way great or small except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force and the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." Winston Churchill

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit" - Ayn Rand

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -- Winston Churchill

Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered. - Patrick Henry

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. - Patrick Henry

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frederic Bastiat

Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Col. Jeff Cooper

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. - John F. Kennedy

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." -- Winston Churchill

"I remember a couple of days after Sept. 11 writing that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it." -- Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, September 5, 2004.

9/11 Tribute, The Blood of Heroes. Be sure to have your speakers on. http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm

"We make war that we may live in peace." -- Aristotle "If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth." -- Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

"A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence." --Woodrow Wilson

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." --Calvin Coolidge

"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." -- George Patton

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us re-consecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain." -- Dwight Eisenhower

"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." --Douglas MacArthur

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W. J. Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)

Liberty has never come from the government.... The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival . . . .There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. -- Winston Churchill

"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." -- George Washington

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." -- Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." -- Ronald Reagan

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

"...every villain, of whatever name or crime, who loves power more than justice, slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat. - James A. Garfield, 1866

"Communism is absolutely evil." -- Whitaker Chambers, former Communist who testified against Communist Alger Hiss, architect of the United Nations charter. Not for nothing was the first UN Secretary General Alger Hiss a convicted Soviet spy

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. --C. S. Lewis

War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory. Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others -- unknown

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -- C. S. Lewis

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater

NPR-When government funds a "news" outlet that has a bias...it's no longer news...it's propaganda.

The media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen. -- Ted Koppel. "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." -- Thomas Sowell

"Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." 2nd Kings 6:16-17

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein

To understand the meaning of "social justice," just substitute the word "coercive" for "social." -- F.A. Hayek

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat -- Ronald Reagan

"Of the eight patients San Francisco psychotherapist Frances Verrinder saw Wednesday, seven were upset and frightened to the point of tears.... I was worried about this. The Democrats have the mentally ill vote down cold." -- from an online forum, November 2004

Girly Men" is far too polite a term. "Shreiking, crampy, hysterical metrosexual narcissists" might be a modest start. -- from an online discussion of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's reference to Democrats

Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument -- unknown

Nazis means National SOCIALIST - leftists, not rightists. To call Nazi types "rightwing" is not only incorrect, it's buying the leftist line. -- from an online forum

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, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. --C. S. Lewis

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. "For the traitor appears not a traitor -- he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C

"For you enlightened voters...it is your calling to make things as uncomfortable as possible for the libs around you. Speak up for the President and defend your conservative views. When they castigate you, hit them with "well, I would think that you, of all people, would welcome diversity of opinion...or are you a hypocrite?" They need to have their noses rubbed in the fact that they tolerate every viewpoint except conservatism and every lifestyle except Biblical Christianity. Make them squirm!!! You can gain a lot of self-respect that way...and who knows, you may embolden someone else who agrees with you to speak up too. -- from an online forum

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. -- The Crisis, Thomas Paine

Chaplain, I am a strong believer in Prayer. There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by Praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in. Up to now, in the Third Army, God has been very good to us. We have never retreated; we have suffered no defeats, no famine, no epidemics. This is because a lot of people back home are praying for us. We were lucky in Africa, in Sicily, and in Italy. Simply because people prayed. But we have to pray for ourselves, too. A good soldier is not made merely by making him think and work. There is something in every soldier that goes deeper than thinking or working--it's his "guts." It is something that he has built in there: it is a world of truth and power that is higher than himself. Great living is not all output of thought and work. A man has to have intake as well. I don't know what you call it, but I call it Religion, Prayer, or God -- General George Patton

"and of those who have overthrown the liberties of the republics, the greatest number have begun their careers with an obsequious court to the 'Rights of the People', beginning as demagogues and ending as tyrants." ~ George Washington

"Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done." -W

"War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory. Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others -- unknown "

To the USAF Academy, war is NOT to close in and destroy your enemy, but it is only a means to go to a bargaining table like all cowards do.

5 posted on 09/24/2005 10:04:29 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)

Those are some good quotes. I'll have to save them for later use.

My wife (who is conservative like me) has a moonbat friend from years ago who e-mails us (fortunately not that often) stuff from Moveon and other looney-tunes groups. Until now I've tolerated her stuff, figuring it is the result of a diseased mind, but her latest broadside was a cheap shot from Moveon about military recruiters. I've been looking for something appropriate to fire back at my wife's friend, and I'm sure there will be something in those quotes that will do the trick. Thanks for the post.

7 posted on 10/18/2006 9:15:44 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)

8 posted on 07/08/2007 9:27:48 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)

10 posted on 08/30/2007 10:39:15 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)

11 posted on 09/14/2007 11:07:44 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)

12 posted on 07/03/2008 10:37:43 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)

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