Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
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Patriotic
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
Samuel Adams
Politician
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country."
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"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
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"Security without liberty is called prison."
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."
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"For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
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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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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact."
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"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
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"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
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"True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded."
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"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
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"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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"Of the people, by the people, for the people."
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
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