Every battle needs a battle cry

[yvr girl]

We all need to be inspired. Words that speak to our hearts can make us take the next step when our will is about to fail us.

Share some of your favourite quotes.



It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Theodore Roosevelt


"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

[bobthedrummer]

1. Power to the People.

[bryant69]

3. Right on!

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[wtbymark]

2. Don't Tread on Me

the Gadson flag, evoking the history of a free country.

[ET Awful]

4. John F. Kennedy

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

See the rest of that speech here:

http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/whatis.html

[yvr girl]

7. I went to the JFK Library when I was in Boston

I listened to every speech available in its entirety. Pretty inspirational place.

[JHB]

5. Spoon!

Sorry, it's a permanent association with the word "battlecry".

[firefox]

6. Charles Dickens on America

My favorite quote comes from Dickens- "I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. "- http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/dickens/archive/mc/mc-tamai-1.pdf

There are lots of good quotes like-

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington http://www.randomterrain.com/quotes/government.html

The nation has progressed through the following sequence: From bondage
to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness;from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back into bondage.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1748-1813)
"The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. OK, yvr girl, here's one of my favorite quotes:

"I am wounded, but I am not slain.
I shall lay me down and bleed awhile
Then I shall rise and fight again."


John Dryden


:patriot:

[Ex_Catholic]

9. The Tree of Life Isn't Any Bush

[newyawker99]

10. Hi Ex_Catholic!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ClassWarrior]

11. "First they ignore you..."

Y'all know the rest...

NGU.

[Coexist]

12. here's my favorite Teddy Roosevelt quote

"In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!"