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“If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
–Thomas Paine

“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”
–Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
–George Washington

“Anyplace on earth where the citizens have the same small arms as the soldiers to defend their freedoms, you will find a free nation. Anywhere there is tyranny you will find that the people were first disarmed.”
–John Ross, Unintended Consequences

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”
–Heinrich Himmler, 1936

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
–Winston Churchill

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”
–Barry M. Goldwater

“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
–W. K. Clifford, British philosopher, circa 1876

“Failures are divided into two classes–those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”
–John Charles Salak

“Struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would forever lie dormant without it.”
–Napoleon Hill

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”