Gilbert Gutknecht: “Daniel Webster said, ``God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.'' What…”

“Daniel Webster said, ``God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.'' What you see here is a banner that was displayed and then signed by thousands of my constituents 2 weeks ago at a ``support the troops'' rally in Rochester, Minnesota. Now, I know rallies like this have been conducted all over the United States, but this particular banner is on its way with me to Germany and will be displayed to the brave Americans who are in the hospitals at Ramstein Air Force Base, and then hopefully it will make it from there down to the gulf so that the soldiers who are serving there can see this banner and know that people in Southeastern Minnesota as well as people all over the United States support them. No nation has given more in the defense of liberty than we Americans. From Valley Forge to Gettysburg, from Normandy to this very day, we have demonstrated what President Kennedy meant when he said that, ``we will pay any price, we will bear any burden, we will meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, and shoulder any burden to keep the lamp of liberty burning brightly throughout the world.''”