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

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”

“My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.”

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

“The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

“On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.”

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, 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.”

“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago”

“The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.”

“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.”

“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”