Martin Luther King Jr.
·
Carrie Latet
· Gerald Stanley
Lee · Sinclair Lewis
·
John McCain
· Robert J.
McCracken ·
J. Horace McFarland
· George Jean Nathan
·
Thomas
Paine · Colin Powell
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
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.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Carrie Latet
May I never wake up from the American dream.
Gerald Stanley Lee
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Our country doesn’t depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.
We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities
it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.
Robert J. McCracken
J. Horace McFarland
"These are the
times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of
man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the
more glorious the triumph."
"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. "
"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make
poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with
taxes than not."
"When men yield
up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits
the horizon."
Colin Powell
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
