By Other Notable Americans 03
(Henry, Wayne, Clavell, Clarke, Shenstone, Beecher, Browne, 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!

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.

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.

Charles F. Browne

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

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