Memorial Day Thoughts

Because a whole bunch of people have already said it better:

Samuel Adams:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

Aeschylus:
"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."

John Stuart Mill:

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things;the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse.A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,is a miserable creature and has
no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Demosthenes:
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."

John Locke:
"If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors."

Sir Winston Churchill:
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."