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Tag Name "Patriotic" (568)

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
Nicholas Samstag
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette Rankin
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
Franklin Pierce
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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
Woodrow Wilson
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
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I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
George H. W. Bush
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur
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Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic! But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.
John Guare
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Walter Scott
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
Benjamin Rush
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
James Bryce
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I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
Isaac Rosenberg
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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
Henry A. Kissinger
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What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.
Lucius Beebe
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
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The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.
Isabel Briggs Myers
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All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
Ulysses S. Grant
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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.
Barack Obama
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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
Herbert Hoover
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