Category Archives: Quotes

Patriotism

Quote of the Day

“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance.  It is also owed to justice and to humanity.  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
-James Bryce

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Means of Preserving It

Quote of the Day

“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.”
-James Madison

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Loyalty

Quote of the Day

“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.”
~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Oppressive Government

Quote of the Day

“When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
-Thomas Jefferson

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