Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
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.
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.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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.
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
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