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2004-08-05 at 9:28 p.m.

"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots."

Charles F. Browne

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
George Washington

"Only our individual faith in freedom can help keep us free."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Adali Stevenson

"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."
Robert G. Ingersoll

"The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my conviction is, that the Union of the states must be cherished and perpetuated."
James Madison

"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, by God's and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American."
Daniel Webster

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. And, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
A. Lincoln

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."
George Bernard Shaw

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere."
A. Lincoln

"We know the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our demorcratic system is worth emulation."
Jimmy Carter

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation, evermore!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I hope to find my country in the right; however, I will stand by her, right or wrong."
John J. Crittenden

"We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, seperating it by white stripes this showing that we have seperated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty."
George Washington

"America is a willingness of the heart."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America."
Woodrow Wilson

"In short, we must constantly be prepared for the worst and constantly acting for the best - strong enough to win a war and wise enough to prevent one."
Lydon B. Johnson

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
James Bryce

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy

"Freedom is still expensive. It still costs money. It still costs blood. It still costs courage and endurance, not only in soldiers, but in every man and woman who is free and whos is determined to remain free."
Harry S. Truman

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not a prophecy, but a description."
Raplh Ellison

"America is not a blanket - one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size, America is more like a quilt - many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."
Jesse Jackson

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
James A. Garfield

Quote of the Day: "You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." -Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis