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Let every nation know,
whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe,
to assure the survival
and the success of liberty.

~~ John F. Kennedy














Celebrating the 250th year of
the Great Experiment!!



By the rude bridge
that arched the flood
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once
the embattled farmers stood,
And fired
the shot heard round the World.

~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know the race is not to the swift
nor the battle to the strong.
Do you not think an angel
rides in the whirlwind
and directs this storm?

~~ John Page

The delegates to the
Second Continental Congress
declare that the Thirteen Colonies
are no longer subject
to the monarch of Britain,
King George III,
and are now united, free,
and independent states.

~~ The Founding Fathers














The moment I heard of America,
I loved her;
the moment I knew she was
fighting for freedom,
I burnt with a desire
of bleeding for her.

~~ Marquis de Lafayette















I wish to have no connection
with any ship that does not sail fast;
for I intend to go
in harm's way.

~~ John Paul Jones
Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont November 16, 1778














We sleep safe in our beds because
rough men stand ready in the night
to visit violence
on those who would do us harm.

~~ George Orwell














It's Tommy this, an Tommy that,
an 'chuck 'im out, the brute!'
But it's 'Savior of 'is Country,'
When the guns begin to shoot.

~~ Rudyard Kipling














You have enemies? Good.
That means you have stood up for
something sometime in your life!

The truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end, there it is.

~~ Sir Winston Churchill














June 4, 1940;
The House of Commons

We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence
and growing strength in the air...

We shall defend our Island,
whatever the cost may be;
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills,
we shall never surrender!

~~ Sir Winston Churchill













If we succeed, the country is ours.
It is immense in extent,
and fertile in its soil
and will amply reward our toil.
If we fail,
death in the cause of
liberty and humanity
is not cause for shuddering.
Our rifles are by our side,
and choice guns they are,
we know what awaits us,
and are prepared to meet it.

~~ Kentuckian Daniel William Cloud
Defender of the Alamo 12/26/1835
















The fight is here; I need ammunition,
not a ride.

~~ Volodymyr Zelensky



The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant,
that few stood against many,
and before this battle was over,
even a god-king can bleed.

~~ King Leonidas 1














Four Freedoms:
The first is freedom of speech and expression
... everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way
...everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want
. . . everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear
. . . anywhere in the world.

~~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
















Pope Leo XIV
born in Chicago IL.














If we lose the virile, manly qualities,
and sink into a nation of mere hucksters,
putting gain over national honor,
and subordinating everything
to mere ease of life,
then we shall indeed reach a condition
worse than that of the ancient civilizations
in the years of their decay.

~~ Theodore Roosevelt
The Bullmoose














It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly...
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause; who,
at best, knows the triumph of high achievement;
and who, at the worst,
if he fails,
at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

~~ Teddy Roosevelt
















Operation Neptune Spear

On May 2, 2011,
as a result of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid
on his compound in
Abbottabad, Pakistan,
Osama bin Laden was killed.

Job Well Done,
Thank You Very Much.















I do not fear an army of lions,
if they are led by a lamb,
I do fear an army of sheep,
if they are led by a lion!

~~ Alexander the Great














I cherish the memories of a question
my grandson asked me the other day
when he said,
Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?
Grandpa said no,
but I served in
a Company of Heroes.

~~Major Richard Winters
















November 19, 1863

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives,
that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate
-we can not hallow -this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it
far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us
-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.

~~ President Abraham Lincoln

→ Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth President:

Savior of the Union,
and emancipator of slaves.
Lincoln spent three decades struggling
to pull a recalcitrant nation
from the bondage of slavery.
Against all odds,
the Springfield lawyer succeeded.

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy
described Lincoln as
the greatest figure in world history:

Of all the great national heroes
and statesmen of history
Lincoln is the only real giant.
Alexander, Frederick the Great,
Caesar, Napoleon, Gladstone
and even Washington
stand in greatness of character,
far behind Lincoln.
He was a Christ in miniature,
whose name will live
thousands of years
in the legends of future generations.



















Thomas Jefferson

→ James Madison:
As a key architect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, he was a foremost champion of free speech and believed it necessary for holding public officials accountable in a republic.
→ Thomas Jefferson:
An advocate for free thought and expression, he believed that without it, there could be no public liberty. He famously argued for robust protection of the press.
→ George Mason:
Called freedom of the press one of the greatest protections of liberty and worked to include these rights in the new Constitution.
→ The First Amendment:
A Constitutional guarantee ratified in 1791, explicitly prohibits Congress from making laws that abridge freedom of speech or of the press. It ensures individuals can express their views, even those critical of the government, without fear of censorship or challenges to free speech.
→ Rejection of English Rule:
The Founders sought to prevent the oppressive policies of English rule, where government criticism was suppressed.
→ Discovery of Truth:
It allows for the exploration of ideas and the rejection of falsehoods, contributing to truth and societal improvement.

















Political language is designed
to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable.

~~ George Orwell














Nam et ip
sa scientia potestas est
-- Knowledge is power

~~ Francis Bacon














Beware that, when fighting monsters,
you yourself do not become a monster...
For when you gaze long into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.

~~ Friedrich Nietzsche