Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning. -- Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. -- Winston Churchill

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Martin Luther King



The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Any ingnorant fool can throw a rock at a sleeping lion, but that fool then becomes the lion's lunch. Chat room Sept. 11, 2001 after news of Attack on America

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree --- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. Campbell - Song of the Greeks

The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. John Adams 1774

I am not a Virginian but an American. Patrick Henry - In the Continental Congress Sept. 5, 1774

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! Holmes



The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over the broad land, will swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln - Inaugural address, March 4,1861

Where Liberty is, there is my country. Algernon Sidney's motto



Thank God, I - I also am an American! Daniel Webster, June 17, 1843

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!
Daniel Webster, July 17, 1850

Let our objective be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. Daniel Webster June 17, 1825

The lines of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we should have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But should it be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified. Woodrow Wilson - Flag Day speech, May 7, 1915

America is the crucible of God.
It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . . these are the fires of God you've come to . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American. Zangwill - The Melting Pot