“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”

-Douglas Macarthur

“…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.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. “

George Bernard Shaw

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”

George Washington

“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. “

Robert Jackson