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Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - 
the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately 
attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. 
--Franklin D. Roosevelt 

The Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of 
the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. 
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 
--The Pledge of Allegiance 

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? 
--Evelyn Waugh 

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, 
that my child may have peace. 
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 

This war will not be over by the next commercial break 
--US spokeperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War 

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the 
power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. 
--Samuel Adams 

The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, 
in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, 
employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind 
resolved to die free rather than live slaves. 
--Thomas Jefferson, 1775 

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live 
out the true meaning of its creed: 
'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. 
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this 
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the 
proposition that all men are created equal. 
--Abraham Lincoln 

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, 
no constitution, no law, no court can save it. 
--Judge Learned Hand 

You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of, the land I love,
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
But should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep you eye on the grand old flag. 
--George M. Cohan, You're A Grand Old Flag 

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 
--George Bernard Shaw 

America will never be destroyed from the outside. 
If we falter and lose our freedoms, 
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 
--Abraham Lincoln 

God bless America, land that I love,
Stand beside her, and guide her,
Through the night, with the light from above,
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home,
God bless America! My Home Sweet Home! 

--Irving Berlin, God Bless America 

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. 
--President Thomas Jefferson 

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. 
--Mark Twain 

A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot. 
--William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) 
US newspaper publisher, Recalled on his death 14 Aug 1951