"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
~Winston Churchill

The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person... Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend.
~James Wilson

"History shows us that appeasement does not lead to peace. It invites an aggressor to test the will of a nation unprepared to meet that test. And...those who seemingly want peace the most, our young people, pay the heaviest price for our failure to maintain our strength."
~Ronald Reagan

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."
~George Washington

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
~Billy Graham

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~Abraham Lincoln

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
~Vice President John C. Calhoun


The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
~John C. Calhoun

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~George Washington

"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits-not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
~Ronald Reagan

"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."
~Ronald Reagan

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
~Ronald Reagan


"We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness."
~Ronald Reagan


"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
~Ronald Reagan

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
~Ronald Reagan

Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
~Ronald Reagan

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~James Madison

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
~Ronald Reagan,
Speech to Britain's Parliament, June 1982

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
--George Washington

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."
~~Ian Fleming

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison

[N]o arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan
First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.