"This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life."
- Abraham Lincoln
Message to congress, July 4, 1861

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Thoreau

"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'".
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
- Abraham Lincoln, 1858

The New Frontier
Are you a politician who says to himself: "I will use my country for my own benefit"?...
Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: "I love to serve my country as a faithful servant."?
- Kahlil Gibran

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man."
- Thomas Tusser

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson

"One of the great attractions o patriotism - it fulfils our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
- Aldous Huxley

Sylvia's Lovers
"That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations."
- Elizabeth Gaskell

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

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