We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view. For those who say that, well, all they're trying to say is, "We're not patriotic," simply don't listen to our words very carefully, do they?
The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
It is obviously good and proper to respect the U. S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.