(From a newsgroup discussion)

> It is always norticeable that cowards who refuse to fight for their
> country don't have any hesitation in partaking of the benefits that
> have been bought on a battlefield - like freedom, for examp,e.

You are so right.

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing 
is worth war is much worse. A man 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."
- John Stuart Mill

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- George Orwell

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.