"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it."
"America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure. I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."*
War W/O Citizen Sacrifice
Quotes are from John F. Kennedy, Martin A. Treptow, and Edmund Burke.
*Though this commonly used quote has no definitive textual source, it is thought to be derive from a more ominously prophetic Burke assertion: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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