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“The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.”

Country Lying Sacrifice Greatness Expression Blessing Essence Enjoyed Willingness True Greatness Willingness To Sacrifice

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”

Ideas Enough Imagine Plans Land Special Blessing Size Enjoyed Florida Something Special Disneyland Epcot

Author:Walt Disney

“America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.”

Mind America United States Blessing Track Enjoyed Doubtful

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the grateful provincials enjoyed the blessings of his reign; but the favourites, who had opposed his elevation, were offended by his virtues; and they justly considered the friend of the people as the enemy of the court.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”

“I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.”

Father Justice Common Healing Liberty Rich Mines Blessing Independence Distance Prosperity Enjoyed Glorious This Day Rejoice Fourth Sunlight Pale Inheritance July Stripes

Author:Frederick Douglass

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.”

Able Life Is Becoming Blessing Everyday Enjoyed About Yourself What You Love Becoming A Woman

Author:Kelly Rowland

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”

Enjoy Blessing Praise Enjoyed Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thanksgiving Day Praise God Thanksgiving Thanks Thankful Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Greetings Friends Thanksgiving Blessed And Thankful Thankful To God Praise And Thanksgiving

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.”

Men Firsts Lord Teach Victory Blessing Degrees Agree Enjoyed Bless Completeness Olden Times

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.”

People States Religious Liberty Rights Blessing Conscience Enjoyed Almighty Almighty God

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

People Freedom Liberty Blessing Raises Enjoyed Character Education

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think