“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
“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
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
-Louis D. Brandeis
“Republicans believe every day is 4th of July. Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
-Ronald Reagan
“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
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
-John Adams
“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
“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.”
-Daniel Webster
