“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
-Ronald Reagan
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.”
-George S. Patton
“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…”
-Thomas Paine
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
-Richard Nixon
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
-James Monroe