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  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  • 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.

    Patriotic   Light   July  
    Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”
  • All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

    "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

    Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776
  • 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.

  • Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

    1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.
  • Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  • We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

    Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • 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.

    Change   Freedom   Father  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863
  • We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

    "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    Life   Change   Happiness  
    Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

    Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • 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.

    George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  • So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

    George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.178
  • Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

    "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.
  • A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.
  • The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

  • Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801
  • Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  • There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  • You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

    Trust   Mean   Thinking  
    John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag
  • From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

    "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14
  • You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

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