"Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In celebration of the Fourth Of July, I offer up a few choice quotes on America and patriotism, as well as some important links.
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QUOTES AND LINKS
"I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
-James Baldwin
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-Abraham Lincoln
"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." "
-Marilyn vos Savant
"The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
-Mark Twain
"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."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors."
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
-Mark Twain
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
-Edward Abbey
LINKS
The Declaration Of Independence
The Constitution Of The United States
The Bill Of Rights
The Emancipation Proclamation
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