Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. – NapoleonI

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. – Dwight D. Eisenhower