For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fai

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

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

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

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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