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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."
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"People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins."
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"The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white stripes that strips our sins, and the stars of Abraham's covenant, broad in a midnight blue sky. The rights our forefathers established. As it waves high in the currents of freedom, where the Torch of Liberty shines over the sea, does she give meaning to unity. When we strive as one nation, or when it drops half-mast, to a fallen soldier."
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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 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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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
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"A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men, he is the uncandid candid friend; the man who says, "I am sorry to say we are ruined," and is not sorry at all. Granted that he states only facts, it is still essential to know what are his emotions, what is his motive. It may be that twelve hundred men in Tottenham are down with smallpox; but we want to know whether this is stated by some great philosopher who wants to curse the gods, or only by some common clergyman who wants to help the men."
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"Patriotism is the surefire wingnut that binds our diverse society. Rulers historically used patriotism to manipulate the populous. Patriotism serves as the trump card to justify going to war and mandatory inscription of young men into military service. Patriotism is becoming synonyms with state justified coercion and murder of less powerful people."
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"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."
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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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"Patriotism is dangerous, but kindness is always kind."
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
Unity
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."
Nature
"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged."
Freedom
"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke."
Humor
"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."
Courage
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
Friendship
"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."
Patriotism
"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."
Wisdom
"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."
Criticism
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