American Patriotic

We hold these truths

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The winds that blow

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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men. Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need a type

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us….. The old \”manifest destiny\” idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can – and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to … Read more

I knew Otto Kahn

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I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. … Read more

The stern hand of

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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation – the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. David Lloyd George

True patriotism hates injustice

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow