American flag Quote by Kevin Lacz

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give…

— Patrick Henry

“It was an oddly comforting sight, for men and women who’d been immersed in brutality. Who’d worn their guns more proudly than their badges.”

— Louise Penny

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

“The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land to flourish…

— John F. Kennedy

“My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red…

— Shirley Marr

“A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with open ranks for their dead and then stepped down out of romance…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To hold Old Glory, a symbol of freedom and liberty to many around the world, not just in the United States, this one means…

— Eddy Alvarez

“The blond's booming voice was well-educated British, but his outfit didn't match it. His hair was the only normal thing about him--close cropped and…

— Karen Chance

“And nothing holds more glory than in dying for Love or Liberty.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Liberty was fought with bullets, Blood was shed for independence, Sacrifices were made for freedom.”

— D.L. Lewis

“What sticks with me now is not so much the pain and terror and sorrow of the war, though I remember that well enough.…

— R.V. Burgin

“We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with the fence,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides