Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Freedom . . . is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
- Ronald Reagan
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.