Bob Feller Quotes

We are very clear that we will go to any lengths for the sake of protecting our national pride.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

We prefer the well-being of our country over the well-being of an individual or group.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed.

We pledge to you the sacrifice of our lives and property in support of whatever measures the dignity and liberties of the free sovereign and independent State may seem to your wisdom to demand.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

As a nation, we must honor the service and sacrifice made by Service members - past and present - to defend our nation and protect the American way of life.

I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.

America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.