"Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
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"Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
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"I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."
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"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."
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"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
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"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
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"All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism."
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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
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"Who saves his country violates no law."
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"The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can."
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"Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights."
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"When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul."
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"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism."
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"I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism."
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"I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."
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"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
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