Phil Klay Quotes

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

In patriotism, loyalty, and combat, there are no moderates.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

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

From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what's ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.