Usa Patriotic Quotes

• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Learning

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Names, America

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• The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Usa Patriotism, Revolution

  United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson (1918). “President Wilson ̓state papers and addresses”

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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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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• 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.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Dream, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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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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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  John Gunther

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• National honor is national property of the highest value.

  James Monroe

  Life, Patriotic, Army

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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• The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

  James G. Blaine

  Country, 4th Of July, America

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• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

  John Dickinson

  4th Of July, Fall, Patriotic

  "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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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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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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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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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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  True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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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

  Country, 4th Of July, Mean

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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