Quotes August 01, 2025

“For love of country they accepted death.”
James A. Garfield
 
 
 
 
“We must never forget why we have and why we need our military.”
Lt. Colonel Allen West
 
 
 
 
“Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.”
John A. Logan
 
 
 
 
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the armed forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.”
“Our servicemen and women are serving throughout the world as guardians of peace–many of them away from their homes, their friends, and their families. They are visible evidence of our determination to meet any threat to the peace with measured strength and high resolve. They are also evidence of a harsh but inescapable truth–that the survival of freedom requires great cost and commitment, and great personal sacrifice.”
President John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“Today, let us, as Americans, honor the American fighting man. For it is he–the soldier, the sailor, the Airman, the Marine–who has fought to preserve freedom. It is his valor that has given renewed hope to the free world that by working together in discipline and faith our ideals of freedom will always prevail.”
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman