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"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

"On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses."

"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."

"Patriotism , as a feeling of exclusive love for one's own people, and as a doctrine of tile virtue of sacrificing one's tranquillity, one's property, and ever, one's life, in defence of one's own people from slaughter and outrage by their enemies, was the highest idea of the period when each nation considered it feasible and just, for its own advantage, to subject to slaughter and outrage the people of other nations."

"Independence Day is a day of truth,It stands for us,Both me and you,It gives us hope,To fight on days,When there are others against us,What more can I say.It gives us glory,Our land to share,With each other,We shall not despair.The land of freedom,Our liberty tall,She shines her torch,For one and all.The fourth of July,Is our special day,It's when we came of age,That's all I'll say.God Bless!"

"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."

"The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me."

"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."

"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."


"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."


"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."


"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"


"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."


"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
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