"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." - Ronald Reagan

"A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for." - Albert Einstein

"Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government. Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as firm and complete as they should be. These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country." - General Douglas MacArthur, Speech to Corp of Cadets at West Point, May 1962

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - Declaration of Indepenence
 
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
 
"The Cross of Christ is not a defeat: the Cross is love and mercy." - Pope Francis
 
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless." - Chester W. Nimitz
 
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
 
"Nature is the art of God." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage." - Thucydides

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher

"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being." - George Washington

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln 

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln

"Encourage one another every day, as long as it is called 'today,' that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin." - Hebrews 3:13

"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." - Winston Churchill

"Buy truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom and instruction and understanding." - Proverbs 23:23

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwarzkopf

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill