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By Other Notable Americans 01
Samuel
Adams
· George Bancroft
· Henry
Ward Beecher · Louis D. Brandeis
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Charles F. Browne
· James Bryce · Edith Cavell · Arthur C. Clarke · George William Curtis
Samuel Adams The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
George Bancroft
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on
persons and not on property, on the free development of public
opinion and not on authority.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no
respect.
Henry Ward Beecher A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
Louis D. Brandeis Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Charles F. Browne We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
James Bryce Our country is not the only thing
to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to
humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in
striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
George William Curtis 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.
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