Big Poppa

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.--------------------------------------------America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.------------------------------------------------------ ------------------I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.--------------------------------------------------- ----------------Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.--------------------------------------------------------- -----------------All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.------------------------------------------------------- ------------Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.------------------------------------------------------- ------I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.----------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.---------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------Heros get remeembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand opposed. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.