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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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• In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Firsts, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gun, Lunch, Democracies Have

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments.

  John Adams

  Fear, Patriotic, Government

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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  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

  Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• 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

  Courage, Determination, Jobs

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17

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• He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Rights, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.221

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• The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

  Alexander Pope

  Leadership, Ambition, Sea

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.15

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• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, People, Soul

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

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• A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

  George Canning

  Country, World, Steady

  Referring to the Jacobin, in 'New Morality' (1821) l. 113.

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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

  Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Fool

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

  Max Lerner

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Ideas

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Believe, Power

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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  If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Love, Peace, Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

  Walter Scott

  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

  Henry James

  Home, Patriotic, Thinking

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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