God Bless America!
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America! America! God shed His grace on thee; And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea!
Katherine Lee Bates, "America the Beautiful"
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
John A. Dix (1798-1879): An Official Despatch, Jan. 29, 1861.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
Kierkegaard
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Judge Learned Hand
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I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The Pledge of Allegiance
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
Robert Charles Winthrop
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