“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Source: Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)
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“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy
“The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
Source: The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823
“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.”
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”
“He loves his country best who strives to make it best.”
Source: Life and letters
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”
Source: President Wilson ̓state papers and addresses
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.”
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
“We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.”
Source: Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.”
“America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.”
Source: The Works of Herman Melville
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
Source: Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life
“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.”
Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson