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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
"Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again."
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
"The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it."
"The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please."
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
"Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them."
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
