Quotes and Toasts
"Here's to the Army and Navy, and the battles they have won. Here's to America's colors-- The colors that never run!"
"May the tree of liberty flourish round the globe, and every human being partake of its fruits."
"May noise never excite us to battle, or confusions reduce us to defeat."
"To her we drink, for her we pray, our voices
silent never.
For her we'll fight -- let come what may, The Stars
and Stripes forever."
"Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshipers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them."
"May the tree of liberty flourish round the globe, and every human being partake of its fruits."
"May noise never excite us to battle, or confusions reduce us to defeat."
"To her we drink, for her we pray, our voices
silent never.
For her we'll fight -- let come what may, The Stars
and Stripes forever."
"Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshipers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
Arabian Proverb
0 comments:
Post a Comment