Category Archives: Quotations Freedom

Power concedes nothing without a demand. EIt never did, and it never …

Power concedes nothing without a demand. EIt never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injusticeand wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. Frederick Douglass

When you lose a friend you have an overpowering desire to go …

When you lose a friend you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody’s ear, ‘This guy was killed fighting for you.’ Don’t forget him – ever. Keep him in your mind when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Don’t think of him as a statistic which changes 38,788 casualties to 38,789. Think of him as a guy who wanted to live every bit as much as you do. Bill Mauldin
During World War II.