In Honor Of Pearl Harbor

I offer these words spoken by those more gifted than myself:

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What
should be the reward of such sacrifices?'...If ye love wealth greater than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for
freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye
were our countrymen."---Samuel Adams


"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."---Abraham Lincoln


"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from
the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are
forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is
inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.It is in vain, sir,
to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no
peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will
bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the
field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they
have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"---Patrick Henry

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state
of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much
worse.... A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which
is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has
no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men
than himself."---John Stuart Mill


"I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this
struggle for freedom and security for the American people. The course of this
conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and
cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between
them. Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the
rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies
before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch over the United States of
America." President George W. Bush