George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
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"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none"
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"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
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"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
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"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking."
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"That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
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"Of the people, by the people, for the people."
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."
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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
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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."
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"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
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