FREEDOM is the oxygen of the soul

"Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.

Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life." Mary Roach. 

I think patriotism is like charity, it begins at home. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Freedom is never granted; it is won.

We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. 

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up. Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.