I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_. ) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
