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  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

    "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
  • 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.

  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  • Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

    Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
  • The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

    Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
  • The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; 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. It will bring a mark of everlasting 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 designing men.

  • We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

    Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

    John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
  • 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”
  • 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.

  • In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation
  • 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.
  • I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

    "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.
  • We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

    William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
  • 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 the success of liberty.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

    Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.
  • Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library
  • 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.

  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

    Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on
  • For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

    Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press
  • Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

    Loyalty   Country   Peace  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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 (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.239
  • America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

    Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
  • True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  • The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • 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.

    "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.
  • Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

    The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777
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