Armed Forces Day

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M.Grundler

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Elmer Davis

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. – Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is never free. – Author Unknown

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! – Maya Angelou

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten – duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. – David Lloyd George

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? – George Canning

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. – John A. Logan

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. – Benjamin Franklin

He loves his country best who strives to make it best. – Robert G. Ingersoll

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! – Thomas Jefferson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! – Daniel Webster