“Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
- George Washington
Love
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation."
- George Washington
Awareness
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
- George Washington
Awareness
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
- George Washington
Belief
"We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty."
- George Washington
Belief
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage