America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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.
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.
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.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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.
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.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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