Of the people, by the people, for the people.
National honor is national property of the highest value.
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.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
These are the times that try men's souls.
America is another name for opportunity.
I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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 men label you as they may.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
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