“Israel exists: it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders, and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel’s heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel’s population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.”

-Pres. Ronald Reagan, September 1, 1982

“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.”

-Numbers 10:9 (NKJV)

“If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.”

-Truett Cathy

“To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster.”

-Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, 1940

“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.”

–Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army