You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol. - D. L. Moody

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year. - Daniel Webster

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship. - Patrick Henry

It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died; they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their county, for us. All we can do is remember. - Ronald Wilson Reagan Remarks at Veteran's Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1985

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan

I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers - and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerc - and it was not there . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution - and it vas not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. - Alexis de Toqueville (attributed) * *Note: This quote is disputed in regards to whether it actually comes from de Toqueville or not. It seems to not be found in Democracy in America or any of his writings. Part of it shows up attributed to de Toqueville in a book from 1941 (long after de Toqueville's death), but where that source acquired the quote is unknown.

Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world. - Florence A. Jones

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States - Adams, John

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis

It is impossible to righteously govern the world without God and the Bible. - George Washington

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it - Adams, John Quincy

For love of country they accepted death - James Garfield

GOING TO THE GONE A checklist for Memorial Day by Greg Asimakoupoulos May 23, 2008 Go look in on your children still asleep within their bed. Remind yourself they're safe and warm because of some long dead. Go for a walk through cemeteries lined with little flags. Take time to ponder homebound heroes flown in body bags. Go stand between those granite stones engraved with names and dates. Imagine all who died defending our United States. Go on and kneel beside a marker offering a prayer with gratitude for those who gave their lives defeating terror. Go home and count your blessings from the hands of those now gone. Then vow to the Almighty that their mem'ry will live on. Also found here. The following note applies to this poem: Copyright 2008 Greg Asimakoupoulos. Permission is granted to send this to others, with attribution, but not for commercial purposes.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -James Madison

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis

We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus. - John Adams and John Hancock

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here. - Patrick Henry