Quote of the Week

“Though passion has strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” – Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address

“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.” – George Washington