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By Other Notable Americans 04
(Franklin,
Adams, Paine, Bancroft, Davis, Fish, Hearst, Scott, Lee, Stark, James)
Benjamin Franklin They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Where liberty is, there is my country.
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such
Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of
Speech.
It is a common observation here that our cause
is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty
in defending our own.
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.
Thomas Paine
"These are the
times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of
man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the
more glorious the triumph."
"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. "
"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make
poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with
taxes than not."
"When men yield
up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits
the horizon."
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.
Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is
the home of the brave.
Hamilton Fish
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that
it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
William Randolph Hearst
A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a
patriot.
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath
said, This is my own, my native land!
Gerald Stanley Lee
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
John Stark (Battle of Bennington - 1777)
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and
tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American
flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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