America

George Washington

“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.” 
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Benjamin Franklin
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” 
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Daniel Webster
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” 
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Robert G. Ingersoll
“He loves his country best who strives to make it best.” 
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John F. Kennedy
“We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.” 
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Woodrow Wilson
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” 
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Charles F. Browne
“We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.” 
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John Gunther
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”

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Will Rogers
“I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." 
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Hansell B. Duckett
“What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.” 
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Carrie Latet
“May I never wake up from the American dream.” 
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Marshall McLuhan
“America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.”
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Nathan Hale
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Only Americans can hurt America.” 
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Aurora Raigne
“America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.” 
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James G. Blaine
“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” 
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Will Rogers
“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
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Robert Orben
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States.  Ask any Indian.” 
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Val Saintsbury
“My favorite thing about the United States?  Lots of Americans, one America.” 
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Orson F. Whitney:

“The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.”
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J. Horace McFarland
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.” 
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Barbara Jordan
“What the people want is very simple.  They want an America as good as its promise.” 
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William Orville Douglas
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.”
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William J. Clinton
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” 
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Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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Elmer Davis
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” 
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Carrie Latet
“Don't forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for blessing America - he gets a lot of requests, you know.” 
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Walter Lippman
“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.” 
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James Michener
“America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.” 
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Geraldine Ferraro
“If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.” 
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Hamilton Fish
“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.” 
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Bill Vaughan
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.” 
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Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” 
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Theodore Roosevelt
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” 
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
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Henry Ford II
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do something about them.
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Marilyn vos Savant
“What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.” 
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Paul Sweeney
“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.” 
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Will Rogers
“If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone:  America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.”
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Francis Bellamy
“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
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Laurence J. Peter
“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.” 
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Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  It is its natural manure.” 
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Abraham Lincoln
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” 
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Adlai Stevenson
“Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” 
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Theodore Roosevelt
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” 
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Calvin Coolidge
“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.”
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James Madison
“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.”
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Henry Clay
“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
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Billy Graham
“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” 
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Wendell L. Wilkie
“I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” 
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Felix Frankfurter
“We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.” 
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Calvin Coolidge
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” 
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Benjamin Franklin
“The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
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Samuel Adams
“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
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Daniel Webster
“Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.”
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Henry Clay
“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.”
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John F. Kennedy
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
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Calvin Coolidge
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
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Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
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James Madison
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
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Robert J. McCracken
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” 
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David O. McKay
“The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.”
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Joseph Smith
“May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.”
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John Adams
“Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
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Unknown Author”
“A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution
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Samuel Adams
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's constitution have proved the best.  Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called “civic virtue.”
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Adlai Stevenson
“America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.” 
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'Patrick Henry
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
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Israel Zangwill

“America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived.  He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.”
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James Madison
“There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.”
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James Madison
‘We have staked the future of American civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.’ ”
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George Washington
“If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution, framed in the convention where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.”
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Giuseppe Mazzini
“Love your country.  Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.” 
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Dallin H. Oaks
“Citizens … should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.”
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John Adams
“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.”
James T. Farrell: “America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.” 
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America…”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“The United States Constitution was the first written constitution in the world. It has served Americans well, enhancing freedom and prosperity during the changed conditions of more than two hundred years. Frequently copied, it has become the United States’ most important export. After two centuries, every nation in the world except six have adopted written constitutions, and the U.S. Constitution was a model for all of them.”
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Samuel Adams
“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."
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