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2004-08-27 at 8:56 p.m.

"The greatest glory of a freeborn people is to transmit that freedom to their children."

William Harvard

"Flag day . . . is a day when we are to recall the things which we should do everyday of our lives. There are no days of special patriotism."
Woodrow Wilson

"The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate."
Lord Grey

"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
Calvin Coolidge

"Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in the motto: America First."
Woodrow Wilson

"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country."
Daniel Webster

"If a man is fortunate he will before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children."
Will Durant

"The idealists and visionaries foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
Emma Goldman

"Patriotism is just loyalty to friends, people, families."
Robert Santos

"America is great because America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis de Tocqueville

"The patriots blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
Thomas Campbell

"The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction."
Douglas MacArthur

"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 that set it forth."
Henry Ward Beecher, from "The American Flag"

"I always consider the founding of America with reverence and wonder."
John Adams

"Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept, there can be no end save victory."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is no power on earth equal to the power of free men and women united in the bonds of human brotherhood."
Walter P. Reuther

"We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world."
Theodore Roosevelt

"What a cruel thing is war."
Robert E. Lee

"This will remain the land of the free so long as it remains the home of the brave."
Elmer Davis

"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is ever left long without proper reward."
Booker T. Washington

"I believe in America because we have great dreams and we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."
Wendell Wilkie

"America has continued to rise through every age against every challenge, a people of great works and greater possibilities, who have always, always, found the wisdom and the strength to come together as one nation, to widen the circle of opportunity, to deepen the meaning of freedom to that more perfect union."
Bill Clinton

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
Henry Emerson Fosdick

"When an American says that he loves his country, he means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Adlai Stevens

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