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Author |
Quote |
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Abbey, Edward |
"A patriot must
always be ready to defend his country against his government." |
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Adams, John |
"Yesterday, the
greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a
greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A
resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." |
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Adams, John Quincy |
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,
and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never
lost." |
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Adams, John Quincy |
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my
generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of
it." |
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Adams, John Quincy |
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To
believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something
worse." |
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Adams, Samuel |
"The liberties of
our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth
defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against
all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our
worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and
expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care
and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the
present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to
be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated
out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." |
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Addison, Joseph |
"What pity is it
That we can die, but once to serve our country." |
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Armstrong, Neil |
"I'm at the foot
of the ladder...I'm going to step off...now. That's one small step for
man. One giant leap for mankind." |
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Beecher, Henry
Ward |
"A thoughtful
mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the
Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads
chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the
history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that
sets it forth." |
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Bierce, Ambrose |
"Liberty: One of
Imagination's most precious possessions." |
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Browne, Charles
F. |
"We can't all be
Washingtons, but we can all be patriots." |
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Bryce, James |
"Our country is
not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to
justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as
strong." |
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Bunner, Henry
Cuyler |
"Off with your
hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man
enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"Read my lips--NO
NEW TAXES!" |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"I believe with
all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief
in God, without the strength that your faith gives you." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"I've often
thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go
through Congress." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"The problem with
the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"The notion of
political correctness declares certain topics, certain expressions,
even certain gestures, off-limits. What began as a crusade for
civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"I've often
thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go
through Congress." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"You do not
reform a world by ignoring it." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"Use power to
help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes
nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one
just use of power and it is to serve people." |
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Bush, George H.W. |
"I take as my
guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity, in important
things, diversity, in all things, generosity." |
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Bush, George W. |
"America will
never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." |
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Bush, George W. |
"Grief and
tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love
have no end." |
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Bush, George W. |
"Whether we bring
our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be
done." |
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Bush, George W. |
"Our security is
assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of
liberty." |
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Bush, George W. |
"I respect every
soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of
history. America is grateful, and America will not forget." |
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Bush, George W. |
"America was
targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom
and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from
shining." |
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Campbell, Thomas |
"The patriot's
blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." |
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Carter, Boake |
"In time of war
the first casualty is truth." |
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Carter, James Earl |
"My decision to register women
confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are
now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military
should be no exception." |
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Carter, James Earl |
"Globalization, as defined by rich
people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the
Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about
computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world." |
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Carter, James Earl |
"For this generation, ours, life is
nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is
a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual
nourishment of its inhabitants." |
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Carter, James Earl |
"For the first time in the history
of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five
years will be worse than the past five years." |
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Cheney, Dick |
"It is easy to
take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." |
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Chesterton, G. K. |
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no
patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like
saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." |
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Churchill, Sir
Winston |
"War is mainly a
catalogue of blunders." |
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Churchill, Sir
Winston |
"In war, as in
life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to
take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work
for it with all your might." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"There is nothing
wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with
America." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"Part of our
essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will
be here a long time after we're gone." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"You can't say
you love your country and hate your government." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"American and Israel share a special
bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America,
Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of
liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"It takes a long time to turn a big
country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and
our country." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"The new rage is to say that the
government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no
government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense." |
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Clinton, William
J. |
"We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons." |
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Coolidge, Calvin |
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the
strong."
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Coolidge, Calvin |
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a
deity to be worshipped." |
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Coolidge, Calvin |
“We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But
when we
look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must
remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we
associate with it is the result of duty done.” |
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Coolidge, Calvin |
“The issues of the world must be met and met squarely.
The forces of evil do not distain preparation, they are always
prepared and always preparing... The welfare of America, the cause of
civilization will forever require the contribution, of some part of
the life, of all our citizens, to the natural, the necessary, and the
inevitable demand for the defense of the right and the truth.” |
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Coolidge, Calvin |
"Patriotism is
easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by
looking out for your country." |
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Curtis, George
William |
"A man's country
is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it
is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." |
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Darrow, Clarence |
"True patriotism
hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." |
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Davis, Elmer |
"This nation will
remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the
brave." |
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Dickinson, John |
"Then join hand
in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." |
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Douglass,
Frederick |
"A great man,
tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest
sympathy, with no motive apart from his country." (referring to
Abraham Lincoln) |
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Douglass,
Frederick |
"No man can put a
chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the
other end fastened about his own neck." |
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Eisenhower,
Dwight, D. |
"Freedom has its
life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be
daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its
life-giving roots, it will wither and die." |
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Emerson, Ralph
Waldo |
"America is
another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last
effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race." |
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Emerson, Ralph
Waldo |
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is
braver five minutes longer." |
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Emerson, Ralph
Waldo |
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top
of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and
purity of its heart." |
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Faulkner, William |
"We must be free
not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." |
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Ferraro,
Geraldine |
"If you take
advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you
can’t accomplish." |
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Fischer, Martin
H. |
"Of all the
supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's
constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start
modifying, corrupting or abrogating it." |
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Fish, Hamilton |
"If our country
is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly
worth living for in time of peace." |
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Fosdick, Harry
Emerson |
"He is a poor
patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men
everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag
and their fatherland." |
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Fosdick, Harry
Emerson |
"Liberty is
always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." |
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Frankfurter,
Felix |
"We have enjoyed
so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of
forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights." |
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Franklin,
Benjamin |
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily
diminished from its edges." |
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Franklin,
Benjamin |
"Where liberty
dwells, there is my country." |
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Franklin,
Benjamin |
"Democracy is two
wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a
well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" |
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Franklin,
Benjamin |
"The constitution only gives people the right to pursue
happiness, you have to catch it yourself." |
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Franklin,
Benjamin |
"They that can
give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty or safety." |
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Gibran, Kahlil |
"Are you a
politician who says to himself: "I will use my country for my own
benefit?"
Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner
self: "I love to serve my country as a faithful servant?" |
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Grant Ulysses S. |
"Our great modern
Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and
the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose." |
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Gunther, John |
"Ours is the only
country deliberately founded on a good idea." |
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Hale, Nathan |
"I only regret
that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
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Hale, Nathan |
“Let us march immediately, and never lay
down our arms until we obtain our independence.” |
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Hart, Gary |
"I think there is
one higher office than president and I would call that patriot." |
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Hearst, William
Randolph |
"A politician
will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot." |
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Hendel, Samuel |
"The fact, in
short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must
consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints." |
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Henry, Patrick |
"Gentlemen may
cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the
clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why
stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they
have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me
death!" |
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Homer |
"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in
defense of his country." |
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Homer |
"The single best augury is to fight for one's country." |
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Humphrey, Hubert
H. |
"We need an
America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America
grow old in spirit." |
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Humphrey, Hubert
H. |
"What we need are
critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their
country by working to improve it." |
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Huxley, Aldous |
"One of the great
attractions to patriotism - it fulfils our worst wishes. In the person
of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and
cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
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Ingersoll, Robert
G. |
"He loves his
country best who strives to make it best." |
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James, Henry |
"Patriotism is
like charity -- it begins at home." |
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Jefferson, Thomas |
"The cement of
this union is the heart-blood of every American." |
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Jefferson, Thomas |
"My God! How
little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in
possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" |
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Johnson, Andrew |
"When I die, I
desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no
softer pillow than the Constitution of my country." |
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Johnson, Lyndon
B. |
"This, then, is
the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope.
So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is
willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith." |
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Johnson, Lyndon
B. |
"Freedom is not
enough." |
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Johnson, Samuel |
"Patriotism is
the last refuge of scoundrels." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"We dare not
forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Let every nation
know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any
foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Forgive your
enemies, but never forget their names." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Let us think of
education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because
in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can
be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our
nation." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Liberty without
learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in
vain." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"The American, by
nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder
who builds best when called upon to build greatly." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"The men who
create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s
greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as
indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for
they determine whether we use power or power uses us." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"We stand for
freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only
commitment to others." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Mankind must put
an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"There are risks
and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the
long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"The ignorance of
one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"And so, my
fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what
you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not
what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the
freedom of man." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Those who make
peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable." |
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Kennedy, John F. |
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of
growth." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"It is from
numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is
shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the
lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"I believe that,
as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"Progress is a
nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"But suppose God is black? What if we
go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an
inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What
then is our response?" |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"Only those who
dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"If any man claims the Negro should be
content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin
and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only
then has he a right to such a claim." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"It is not enough to understand, or to
see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity,
by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"People say I am ruthless. I am not
ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall
destroy him." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"Whenever men take the law into their
own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom
languishes." |
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Kennedy, Robert F |
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us
can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all
those acts will be written the history of this generation." |
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Kennedy, Robert
F. |
"There are those
who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things
that never were, and ask why not?" |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"I have a dream
that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal'". |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter."
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"In the end, we
will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"I submit that an
individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and
who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse
the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the highest respect for the law." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"We must learn to
live together as brothers or perish together as fools." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"When you are
right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"Nothing in all
the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"I have a dream
that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of
their character." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"A man who won't
die for something is not fit to live." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"There is nothing
more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people
in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that
they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society,
protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously
want to destroy it." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"I refuse to
accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless
midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and
brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and
unconditional love will have the final word." |
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King Jr., Martin
Luther |
"From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From
the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the
heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not
only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of
Mississippi." |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
"All we have of
freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and
long ago." |
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Lawrence, D.H. |
"Men fight for
liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy,
let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once
more slaves." |
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Lee Greenwood |
"I'm proud to be
an American, Where at least I know I'm free. I won't forget the men
who died, who gave that right to me. I'll proudly stand up next to
him to defend her still today, Cuz there aint no doubt I love this
land. God bless the USA" (From the song “Proud to be an American") |
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Lee, Gerald
Stanley |
"America is a
tune. It must be sung together." |
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Lee, Richard Henry |
"These united colonies are and of right ought to be
free and independent states." |
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Lee, Robert E. |
"Abandon your
animosities and make your sons Americans!" |
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