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"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
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." |
Abraham Lincoln
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"Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you." |
Abraham Lincoln
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." |
Abraham Lincoln
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"All Americans must vote Democrat." |
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
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"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it." |
Andrew Jackson
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"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy." |
Ann Coulter
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"Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you." |
Benjamin Franklin
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"You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions." |
Bigsby and Bradbury
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"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people." |
Bill Clinton
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"We’ve gotten in touch with our feelings, but not with the useful ones. We know all about sorrow and sensitivity, but nothing about courage and endurance." |
Bob Lonsberry
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"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country" |
Calvin Coolidge
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"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots." |
Charles F. Browne
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!" |
Daniel Webster
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." |
Dwight Eisenhower
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"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." |
Elmer Davis
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." |
Frederick Douglass
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"...if there ever was a time to put country before self and patriotism before party, the time is now." |
George Bush
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"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." |
George W. Bush
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"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
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"God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat." |
H.L. Mencken
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"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." |
Hamilton Fish
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"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." |
James Bryce
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"Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice." |
Jesse Ventura
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." |
John F. Kennedy
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"I know in this country our liberty will not be seized in a political revolution or by a totalitarian government. But, rather, as Burke warned, it can be "nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." I am alert to that risk and will defend against it, and take comfort from the knowledge that I will be encouraged in that defense by my fellow conservatives." |
John McCain
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"...each and every one of us has a duty to serve a cause greater than our own self-interest..." |
John McCain
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"I'm a man. I'm a man, first and foremost. I'm a citizen of this country. And I happen to be black. I am a human being." |
Justice Clarence Thomas
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"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
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"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 them label you as they may." |
Mark Twain
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"I don't know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton." |
Molly Ivins
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"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." |
Nathan Hale
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"'The whole is greater than the sum of the parts', is Synergy: the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects" |
New Oxford Dictionary
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"It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words." |
Sallust
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." |
Theodore Roosevelt
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"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." |
Thomas Campbell
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"My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind" |
Thomas Jefferson
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"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
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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." |
Thomas Jefferson
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"These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country." |
Thomas Paine
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"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
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"If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag." |
Unknown
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"Materialistic democracy beckons every man to make himself a king; republican citizenship incites every man to be a knight." |
WF Buckley
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"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." |
Winston Churchill
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"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." |
Winston Churchill
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