Famous Quotes
Who Spoke Them
What the circumstances Were

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almight God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry - 23 March 1775, in a speech before the Virginia Assembly. 
    See also The History Place - Great Speeches / Patrick Henry, Liberty or Death

"My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country."
Nathan Hale - September 22, 1776, captured as a spy and hung without a trial by the British.
   See also the University of Connecticut - ROTC Home Page / Nathan Hale

"NUTS!"
Brig.Gen. McAuliffe - 24 December 1944, refusing to surrender when surrounded at Bastogne.
    See also McAuliffe's Christmas Message

    More information on The Battle of the Bulge  (Jim did not participate in this engagement)

"War is hell."  Some versions have, "There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war
as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell"
William T. Sherman
    See also Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, Federal Army; U.S. History Interactive / General Sherman 1820-1891

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana (1863-1952). U.S. philosopher, poet.
Life of Reason, "Reason in Common Sense," ch. 12 (1905-6).
William L. Shirer used this quote as an epigraph in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959).

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