By Other Notable Americans 04
(Adams, Bancroft, Davis, Fish, Hearst, Scott, Lee, Stark, Franklin, James)

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.

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!

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.

Henry James

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

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