Patriotic Quotations
"The times that tried men's souls" are over-and the greatest
and completest revolution the world has ever known, gloriously
and happily accomplished."
Thomas Paine
"When you go home,
Tell them of us and say,
For their tomorrow,
We gave our today."
-The Kohima Epitaph
"Here rests in glory,
An American soldier known but to God."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that
we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and
success of liberty."
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Inauguaral Address
January 20, 1961
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give
me liberty, or give me death."
~Patrick Henry
"Freedom is the deepest and noblest aspiration of the human
spirit."
~Ronald Reagan
"The things that the flag stands for were
created by the experiences of a great people.
Everything that it stands for was written by
their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but
of history."
~Woodrow Wilson
"When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars
and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my
country."
~Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States
"Freedom is the last best hope of earth."
~Abraham Lincoln
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human
freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The
second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own
way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom
from fear."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
the individual who can labor in freedom."
~Albert Einstein
"The basis of our political system is the right of the people
to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
-George Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
"All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the rush of the river,
While soft falls the dew on
the face of the dead,-
The picket's off duty forever.
-Ethel Lynn Beers
The Picket Guard, Stanza 6
September 30, 1861
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be
self-evident that all men are created equal'".
-Martin Luther King Jr.
March on Washington, 1963
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this
government cannot endure permanently half slave and half
free."
-Abraham Lincoln, 1858
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
-Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, 1863
The New Colossus
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she
With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.'"
-Emma Lazarus
In a chariot of light from the region of the day,
The Goddess of Liberty came
She brought in her hand as
a pledge of her love,
the plant she named Liberty Tree.
-Thomas Paine
July, 1775
"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the
flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its
symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the
Government, the principles, the truths, the history which
belongs to the Nation that sets it
forth."
-Henry Ward Beecher
from The American Flag
The Eagle Has Landed
Neil Armstrong: "Houston, Tranquility Base, here. The Eagle
has landed."
Neil Armstrong: "I'm at the foot of the ladder...I'm going to
step off...now. That's one small step for man. One giant leap
for mankind."
Sunday, July 20, 1969, at 4:17 EDT
"A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless
patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his
country."
-Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln
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REMEMBER OSAMA BIN LADIN
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
- Osama bin Laden
Traditional saying from the Hadith -
traced with varying degrees of credibility to Muhammad. Hadith number 2,562 in
the collection known as the Sunan al-Tirmidhi says, "The least [reward] for the
people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of
pearls, aquamarine and ruby."
Sunday, 7 October, 2001 - Bin Laden's warning: full text
Message first broadcast on Arabic station Al Jazeera
Praise be to God and we beseech Him for help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with the Lord of our bad and evildoing. He whom God guides is rightly guided but he whom God leaves to stray, for him wilt thou find no protector to lead him to the right way. I witness that there is no God but God and Mohammed is His slave and Prophet.
God Almighty hit the United States at its most vulnerable spot. He destroyed its greatest buildings. Praise be to God. Here is the United States. It was filled with terror from its north to its south and from its east to its west. Praise be to God. What the United States tastes today is a very small thing compared to what we have tasted for tens of years.
Our nation has been tasting this humiliation and contempt for more than 80 years. Its sons are being killed, its blood is being shed, its holy places are being attacked, and it is not being ruled according to what God has decreed. Despite this, nobody cares.
When Almighty God rendered successful a convoy of Muslims, the vanguards of Islam, He allowed them to destroy the United States. I ask God Almighty to elevate their status and grant them Paradise. He is the one who is capable to do so. When these defended their oppressed sons, brothers, and sisters in Palestine and in many Islamic countries, the world at large shouted. The infidels shouted, followed by the hypocrites.
One million Iraqi children have thus far died in Iraq although they did not do anything wrong. Despite this, we heard no denunciation by anyone in the world or a fatwa by the rulers' ulema [body of Muslim scholars].
Israeli tanks and tracked vehicles also enter to wreak havoc in Palestine, in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jala, and other Islamic areas and we hear no voices raised or moves made.
But if the sword falls on the United States after 80 years, hypocrisy raises its head lamenting the deaths of these killers who tampered with the blood, honour, and holy places of the Muslims. The least that one can describe these people is that they are morally depraved. They champion falsehood, support the butcher against the victim, the oppressor against the innocent child. May God mete them the punishment they deserve.
I say that the matter is clear and explicit. In the aftermath of this event and now that senior US officials have spoken, beginning with Bush, the head of the world's infidels, and whoever supports him, every Muslim should rush to defend his religion. They came out to fight Islam in the name of terrorism. They came out in arrogance with their men and horses and instigated even those countries that belong to Islam against us. They came out to fight this group of people who declared their faith in God and refused to abandon their religion.
Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, were killed in the farthest point on earth in Japan. [For them] this is not a crime, but rather a debatable issue. They bombed Iraq and considered that a debatable issue. These incidents divided the entire world into two regions - one of faith where there is no hypocrisy and another of infidelity, from which we hope God will protect us. But when a dozen people of them were killed in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Afghanistan and Iraq were bombed and all hypocrite ones stood behind the head of the world's infidelity - behind the Hubal [an idol worshipped by pagans before the advent of Islam] of the age - namely, America and its supporters. neither the United States nor he who lives in the United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed.
The winds of faith and change have blown to remove falsehood from the [Arabian] peninsula of Prophet Mohammed, may God's prayers be upon him.
As for the United States, I tell it and its people these few words: I swear by Almighty God who raised the heavens without pillars that neither the United States nor he who lives in the United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed, may God's peace and blessing be upon him.
God is great and glory to Islam.
May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.
Praise be to God and we beseech Him for help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with the Lord of our bad and evildoing. He whom God guides is rightly guided but he whom God leaves to stray, for him wilt thou find no protector to lead him to the right way. I witness that there is no God but God and Mohammed is His slave and Prophet.
God Almighty hit the United States at its most vulnerable spot. He destroyed its greatest buildings. Praise be to God. Here is the United States. It was filled with terror from its north to its south and from its east to its west. Praise be to God. What the United States tastes today is a very small thing compared to what we have tasted for tens of years.
Our nation has been tasting this humiliation and contempt for more than 80 years. Its sons are being killed, its blood is being shed, its holy places are being attacked, and it is not being ruled according to what God has decreed. Despite this, nobody cares.
When Almighty God rendered successful a convoy of Muslims, the vanguards of Islam, He allowed them to destroy the United States. I ask God Almighty to elevate their status and grant them Paradise. He is the one who is capable to do so. When these defended their oppressed sons, brothers, and sisters in Palestine and in many Islamic countries, the world at large shouted. The infidels shouted, followed by the hypocrites.
One million Iraqi children have thus far died in Iraq although they did not do anything wrong. Despite this, we heard no denunciation by anyone in the world or a fatwa by the rulers' ulema [body of Muslim scholars].
Israeli tanks and tracked vehicles also enter to wreak havoc in Palestine, in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jala, and other Islamic areas and we hear no voices raised or moves made.
But if the sword falls on the United States after 80 years, hypocrisy raises its head lamenting the deaths of these killers who tampered with the blood, honour, and holy places of the Muslims. The least that one can describe these people is that they are morally depraved. They champion falsehood, support the butcher against the victim, the oppressor against the innocent child. May God mete them the punishment they deserve.
I say that the matter is clear and explicit. In the aftermath of this event and now that senior US officials have spoken, beginning with Bush, the head of the world's infidels, and whoever supports him, every Muslim should rush to defend his religion. They came out to fight Islam in the name of terrorism. They came out in arrogance with their men and horses and instigated even those countries that belong to Islam against us. They came out to fight this group of people who declared their faith in God and refused to abandon their religion.
Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, were killed in the farthest point on earth in Japan. [For them] this is not a crime, but rather a debatable issue. They bombed Iraq and considered that a debatable issue. These incidents divided the entire world into two regions - one of faith where there is no hypocrisy and another of infidelity, from which we hope God will protect us. But when a dozen people of them were killed in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Afghanistan and Iraq were bombed and all hypocrite ones stood behind the head of the world's infidelity - behind the Hubal [an idol worshipped by pagans before the advent of Islam] of the age - namely, America and its supporters. neither the United States nor he who lives in the United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed.
The winds of faith and change have blown to remove falsehood from the [Arabian] peninsula of Prophet Mohammed, may God's prayers be upon him.
As for the United States, I tell it and its people these few words: I swear by Almighty God who raised the heavens without pillars that neither the United States nor he who lives in the United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed, may God's peace and blessing be upon him.
God is great and glory to Islam.
May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.