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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
"Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements."
"A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it."
"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
"What else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves-our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?"
"Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country."
"True patriotism is doing something for your country."
"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."
"As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them."
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
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