"Who here is so vile that he will not love his country?"--William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"You will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you use it wisely."--John Adams
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" --Patrick Henry
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --John Stuart Mill
"If you want peace prepare for war" --Epitoma Rei Militaris by Vegetius.
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." -- Herbert Hoover
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."--Plato