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"I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one's own small and solitary cause."
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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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"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world."
"An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I've made, not the elimination of it."
"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
"I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands."
"Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact."
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