30 Days of Thanks - Day 11 - Veterans' Day

I am thankful for the liberties I enjoy at ease - those for which others have fought and died. I am therefore at greater thanks to those whom have struggled to secure those liberties for myself and others. May we not forget those who bind their lives to loosen the bonds of others.

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." - John Philpot Curran

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." - Frederick Douglas