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By Other Notable Americans 03
(Henry,
Douglass, Wayne, Clavell, Clarke, Shenstone, Browne,
Beecher, Hart)
Patrick Henry Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Frederick Douglass
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and
appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires
reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be
imposed on them.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern
Shore where I was born a slave.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper
application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate
agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the
rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where
ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that
society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade
them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
The relation between the white and colored people of this
country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding
question for this age and nation to solve.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
John Wayne 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.
Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
William Shenstone The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Charles F. Browne We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
Henry Ward Beecher A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
Gary Hart
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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