The United States Constitution.

"War is sorrowful, but there is one thing infinitely more horrible than the worst horrors of war, and that is the feeling that nothing is worth fighting for..."

-- Harper's Weekly, December 31, 1864

 "The troops... were chiefly volunteers, who went to the field to uphold the system of free government established by their fathers and which they mean to bequeath to their children."
--Official Record (Union Letters, Orders, Reports)

""If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms."
-- Samuel Adams

 "We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination"
-- Jefferson Davis

Tuskeege Airmen

Martin Luther King, Jr.