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QUOTES OF OUR FOUNDING
FATHERS
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It
does not mean to stand by the president or any public official, save exactly to the degree
he himself stands by the country." Theodore Roosevelt
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man
and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for
then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I
can do something. What I can do I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."
Everett Hale
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer
soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands 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; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value. Heaven knows how to put a
proper price on it's goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as
freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may
cry, Peace, Peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that
sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren
are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What
would they have? 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
AND OTHERS
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win
without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is 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 even be 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
QUOTES FROM OUR FATHER'S
"GOOD BOOK"
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet,
and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he
is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezekiel 33:6
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people who
asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over
you: he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his
horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint for himself captains
over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to
reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And
he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And
he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them,
and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your
menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put
them to work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye
shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen; and the Lord
will not hear you in that day. 1 Samuel 8:10 -18
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of
his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1 Timothy
5:8
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
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