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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."

"I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions."

"America is a willingness of the heart."

"Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation."

"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism."

"Where liberty is, there is my country."

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

"An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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