Need help with a quote

[beaglesandbass]

I remember talking about this in Enlish class back in high school. It was some quote by an American Colonist, about the revolotionary war. It was something along the lines of "we should fight the war now so our children don't have to". i can't remember the exact wording or who said it.

can anyone help me?

 

[superbassman2000]

"A generous parent would have said, 'if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense