"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." ~Samuel Adams
"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots." ~Charles F. Browne....
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." ~Calvin Coolidge....
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." ~Clarence Darrow ....
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." ~Nathan Hale's last words before being hanged by British. ....
"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!" ~Patrick Henry ....
"When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country." ~Andrew Johnson ....
"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." ~John F. Kennedy ....
"(W)e 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." ~Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address ....
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~Abraham Lincoln ....
"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." ~Richard Nixon ....
"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…" ~Thomas Paine ....
"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." ~Ronald Reagan ....
"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" ~Ronald Reagan ....
"I venture to suggest that partiotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." ~Adali Stevenson ....
"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." ~Mark Twain ....
"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." ~Daniel Webster ....
"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." ~John Wayne ....
"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." ~Woodrow Wilson ....
"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." ~Abraham Lincoln....
"[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." ~Adlai Stevenson....
"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." ~Adlai Stevenson....
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~Elmer Davis....
"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." ~Adlai Stevenson....
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." ~John Gunther....
"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag." ~Author Unknown....
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." ~Benjamin Franklin....
"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." ~Woodrow Wilson....
"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me!I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling seaTo the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."~Henry Van Dyke....
"I love my freedom. I love my America." ~Jessi Lane Adams....
"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." ~Theodore Roosevelt....
"Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it." ~Martin H. Fischer....
"It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism." ~J. Horace McFarland....
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" ~Thomas Jefferson....
"Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose." ~Ulysses S. Grant....
"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." ~Louis D. Brandeis....
"To me, being an American means feeling safe." ~Currielene Armstrong....
"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." ~Robert J. McCracken....
"May I never wake up from the American dream." ~Carrie Latet....
"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot." ~Gary Hart....
"What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it." ~Hubert H. Humphrey....
"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." ~Felix Frankfurter....
"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home." ~Henry James....
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." ~Edward Abbey....
"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." ~John Adams....
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." ~John Quincy Adams....
"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." !John Quincy Adams....
"The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur." ~George H. W. Bush....
"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." ~George H. W. Bush....
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." ~George H. W. Bush....
"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." ~George W. Bush....
"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." ~Thomas Campbell....
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." ~Dick Cheney....
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." ~Calvin Coolidge....
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" ~Benjamin Franklin....
"The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness, you have to catch it yourself." ~Benjamin Franklin....
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." ~Banjamin Franklin....
"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?" ~Kahlil Gibran....
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" ~Thomas Jefferson....
"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy....
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." ~John F. Kennedy....
"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." ~Martin Luther King Jr.....
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." ~Martin Luther King Jr.....
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~Abraham Lincoln....
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." ~General Douglas MacArthur....
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." ~General George S. Patton....
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." ~George Washington....
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." ~George Washington....
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." ~George Washington....
"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." ~Woodrow Wilson....
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