The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we ca

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

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

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

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

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

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