Patriotism And Freedom

Freedom cannot be bestowed

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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved. Elbert Hubbard

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

In the truest sense,

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

True patriotism hates injustice

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

Patriotism is easy to

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

We, the People, recognize

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who … Read more

For what avail the

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson

When an American says

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which … Read more