"The Nation that draws too great a distance between its soldiers and its scholars will have its children taught by cowards and its fighting done by fools. " -Thucydides

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." -Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC