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"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."
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"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
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"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."
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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."
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"I have never felt so alive-so free-so proud. I love my country. I love my America."
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"He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born, and where he was born didn't choose him."
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"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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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
America
"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."
Love
"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."
Heart
"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
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"Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil."
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"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."
Childhood
"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
Life
"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."
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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
Difference
"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
Time
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