14 July 2007

My Country Right or Wrong! But is it worth fighting and dieing for?

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Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!
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Citius - Altius - Fortius
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La ilah ha ilul Allah!
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Voltaire.

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It is not the critic who counts, nor 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; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fail again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who does know the great enthusiasm, the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.(Theodore Roosevelt)
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What is left when honor is lost? (Publius Syrus).

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Friedrich Nietzsche).
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means
maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers....Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for. (Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf).

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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change
because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Giordano Bruno (1548-burned at the stake,1600).
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight which counts. It's the size of the fight in the dog. (Dwight Eisenhower).

Better to light the candle, than curse the darkness. (Confucius).

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One idea can light a thousand candles. (Ralph Waldo Emerson?)
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. (Winston Churchill).
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What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that you do it. (Mahatma Gandhi).
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It has nothing to do with defending our country, except to make it worth defending. (Robert Wilson).
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Dante Alighieri).
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To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. (Confucius).
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I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. (John Adams)
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If I were forced to choose between my country and my friend, I hope I would be brave enough to choose my friend. (E.M. Forster).
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler).
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I want you to remember that no one ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.)
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......and of course, last but not least?
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CYMRU AM BYTH