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"I am ever unwilling that (peace) should be disturbed
as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a
resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies."
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"And so, my fellow
Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world:
ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
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"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!"
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JOHN
WAYNE
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"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm
not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
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SAMUEL
ADAMS
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"The liberties
of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and 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, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting
mark of 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 false and designing men."
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