America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
The Patriotic Front is two organisations under a banner, and we cannot create one party overnight. It takes time. Even if we wanted it, this is not the time to do it; it would raise more contradictions in the Patriotic Front.
Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. . . The Bible. . . should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Confidence. . . thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. ' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
National chauvinism is a very tough nut to crack, since a vast propaganda network is in place to keep the workers whipped up into a patriotic frenzy. Maybe this will change, but I doubt it unless it is addressed.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.