Profound and true. That gets a rare dual-approval by both the Captain, and the Chief Medical Officer:
Biff, you asked us: How do we defeat tanks in our streets? How do we defeat Jug Ears air force? How do we defeat our neighbor who is a police officer? Where do we learn?
How did the Maquis defeat the Nazis? How did the Mujaheddin defeat the Soviets? How did the Ukrainians bring down their tyrants?
Gentlemen, I and others among you agree: the ballot box, the mail box and the jury box have failed us. It is rapidly approaching the time when we fall back to the next trench and crack open that next box.
Leaving these shores is never an option. Reagan admonished us that "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."
Travis and everyone at the Alamo knew it:
I shall never surrender or retreat... I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch... if this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country...
Bold Leonidas and the Three Hundred knew it:
No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight... and all will know, that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it!
And that most illustrious of poets knew it:
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us...
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s Day!