We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
The liberties of our country the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
All the armies of Europe Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The liberties of our country the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation enlightened as it is if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
He who defends everything defends nothing.
All the armies of Europe Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
Millions for defence but not one cent for tribute.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
A thorn defends the rose harming only those who would steal the blossom.