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Abbey, Edward	"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Addison, Joseph	"What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country."
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."
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."
Bierce, Ambrose	"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."
Browne, Charles F.	"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots."
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."
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."
Bush, George H.W.	"Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!"
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."
Bush, George H.W.	"I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress."
Bush, George H.W.	"The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur."
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."
Bush, George H.W.	"I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress."
Bush, George H.W.	"You do not reform a world by ignoring it."
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."
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."
Bush, George W.	"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country."
Bush, George W.	"Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end."
Bush, George W.	"Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done."
Bush, George W.	"Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty."
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."
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."

Campbell, Thomas	"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
Carter, Boake	"In time of war the first casualty is truth."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Cheney, Dick	"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
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."
Churchill, Sir Winston	"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
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."
Clinton, William J.	"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
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."
Clinton, William J.	"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."
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."
Clinton, William J.	"It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it."
Clinton, William J.	"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country."
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."
Clinton, William J.	"We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons."
Coolidge, Calvin	"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
Coolidge, Calvin	"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
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.”
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.”
Coolidge, Calvin	"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
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."
Darrow, Clarence	"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
Davis, Elmer	"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
Dickinson, John	"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
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)
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."
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."
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."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
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."
Faulkner, William	"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
Ferraro, Geraldine	"If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish."
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."
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."
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."
Fosdick, Harry Emerson	"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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."
Franklin, Benjamin	"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished from its edges."
Franklin, Benjamin	"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."
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!"
Franklin, Benjamin	"The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness, you have to catch it yourself."
Franklin, Benjamin	"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
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?"
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."
Gunther, John	"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
Hale, Nathan	"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Hale, Nathan	“Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.”
Hart, Gary	"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."
Hearst, William Randolph	"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."
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."
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!"
Homer	"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."
Homer	"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
Humphrey, Hubert H.	"We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit."
Humphrey, Hubert H.	"What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it."
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."
Ingersoll, Robert G.	"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."
James, Henry	"Patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
Jefferson, Thomas	"The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."
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!"
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."
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."
Johnson, Lyndon B.	"Freedom is not enough."
Johnson, Samuel	"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels."
Kennedy, John F.	"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
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."
Kennedy, John F.	"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
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."
Kennedy, John F.	"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
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."
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."
Kennedy, John F.	"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."
Kennedy, John F.	"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
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."
Kennedy, John F.	"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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."
Kennedy, John F.	"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Kennedy, John F.	"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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."
Kennedy, Robert F	"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
Kennedy, Robert F	"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."
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?"
Kennedy, Robert F	"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
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."
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."
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."
Kennedy, Robert F	"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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."
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?"

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'".
King Jr., Martin Luther	"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
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."
King Jr., Martin Luther	"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
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."
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."
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."
Kipling, Rudyard	"All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."
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."
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")
Lee, Gerald Stanley	"America is a tune. It must be sung together."
Lee, Richard Henry	"These united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states."
Lee, Robert E.	"Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!"
Lewis, Sinclair	"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Lincoln, Abraham	"This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life."
Lincoln, Abraham	"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Lincoln, Abraham	"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
Lincoln, Abraham	"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Lincoln, Abraham	"I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded in this connection of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream."
Lincoln, Abraham	"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Lincoln, Abraham	"If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage."
Lincoln, Abraham	"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
Lincoln, Abraham	"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
Lincoln, Abraham	"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln, Abraham	"In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free-honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."
Lincoln, Abraham	"Common looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the lord makes so many of them."
Lincoln, Abraham	"...That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln, Abraham	"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Locke, John	"In the beginning, all the world was America."
Lodge, Henry Cabot	"It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations."
Douglas MacArthur	"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
Douglas MacArthur	"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
Douglas MacArthur	"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
Douglas MacArthur	"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
Douglas MacArthur	"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."
MacLeish, Archibald	"There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream."
Malcolm X	"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
McCracken, Robert J.	"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."
McFarland, J. Horace	"It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism."
McNamara, Robert	"That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public."
McNamara, Robert	How to avoid these conflicts is something the human race has to learn. This century will go down as the bloodiest century in all of human history. We'll have lost 160 million people, killed by conflict. Is that what we want in the 21st century?
Monroe, James	"National honor is national property of the highest value."
Murrow, Edward R.	"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
Nathan, George Jean	"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
Nixon, Richard	"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
Paine, Thomas	"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Paine, Thomas	"Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…"
Paine, Thomas	"In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree."
Paine, Thomas	"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
Paine, Thomas	"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Paine, Thomas	"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
Patton, George S.	"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
Patton, George S.	"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
Patton, George S.	"If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?"
Patton, George S.	"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
Patton, George S.	"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
Patton, George S.	"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
Powell, Colin	"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
Reagan, Ronald	"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
Reagan, Ronald	"And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."
Reagan, Ronald	"In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead"

Reed, Henry	"In a civil war, a general must know ... exactly when to move over to the other side."
Rogers, Will	"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world."
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
Roosevelt, Teddy	"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."
Roosevelt, Teddy	"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
Roosevelt, Teddy	"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
Russell, Bertrand	"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
Santayana, George	"A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
Schurz, Carl	"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
Shaw, George Bernard	"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it "
Shaw, George Bernard	"You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
Stevenson, Adlai	"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Stevenson, Adlai	"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Stevenson, Adlai	"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality."
Stevenson, Adlai	"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
Sweeney, Paul	"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy."
Tusser, Thomas	"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man."
Twain, Mark	"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
Twain, Mark	"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may."
Twain, Mark	"Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"- with his mouth.
Unknown	"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Unknown	"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag."
Unknown	"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Unknown	"Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves."
Unknown	"Freedom is never free."
Van Dyke, Henry	"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea. To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
Vaughan, Bill	"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."
vos Savant, Marilyn	"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Washington, George	"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
Washington, George	"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
Washington, George	"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
Washington, George	"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
Washington, George	"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
Wayne, John	"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
Webster, Daniel	"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!"
Webster, Daniel	"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American."
Webster, Daniel	"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
Webster, Daniel	"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Wilkie, Wendell	"I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."
Wilson, Woodrow	"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
Wilson, Woodrow	"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
Wilson, Woodrow	"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
Wilson, Woodrow	"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."

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