Manual of Patriotism
The glorious Union is our world.—Daniel S. Dickinson.
Our Country— the strongest, richest, freest, happiest of the nations of the earth.—George F. Hoar.
Valor's home and Freedom's lov'd retreat!—William Leggett.
One country, one Constitution, one destiny.—Daniel Webster.
The glorious Union our fathers gave us till time shall be no more.—Reverdy Johnson.
Never was a people so advantageously situated for working out the great problem of human liberty.—Henry A. Boardman.
The American Nation! Its men are as brave, energetic and dauntless as they are honest.—Nicholas, Czar of Russia.
An indissoluble Union of indestructible States, one flag, one country, one destiny!—Daniel Webster.
I am an American; I know no country but America, and no locality in America that is not my country.—Daniel Webster.
The people's government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.—Daniel Webster.
We are Americans, we will live Americans and we will die Americans.—Daniel Webster.
Above all, we must stand shoulder to shoulder for the honor and the greatness of our country.—Theodore Roosevelt.
There never existed an example before of a free community spreading over such an extent of territory.—John C. Calhoun.
Here the people govern. Here they act by their immediate representatives.—Alexander Hamilton.
In our federal relations I know but one section, one union, one flag, one government.—Daniel S. Dickinson.
We are to constitute all together, North, South, East, West, one government.— Hilary A. Herbert.
The best son of his country is he who gives the best manhood to his country.—Anon.
The love of my country will be the ruling influence of my conduct.—George Washington.
One God, one country, one destiny. This is the gospel of American nationality.—Wendell Phillips.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious, but as sacred.—Andrew Jackson.
I know no North, no South, no East, no West to which I owe any allegiance.—Henry Clay.
Let every man that lives and owns himself an American take the side of true American principles.—Henry Ward Beecher.
The heritage of American youth is equal opportunities in a land of equal rights.—William L. Wilson.
Every American should be proud of his whole country, rather than a part.—William Tecumseh Sherman.
We of this generation and nation, occupy the Gibraltar of the ages which commands the world's future.—Josiah Strong.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and its valleys are its soil, its spirit, its life.—James A. Garfield.
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country and his feelings concerning it.—William Ewart Gladstone.
Without Union our independence and liberty would never have been achie.ved; without Union they cannot be maintained.—Andrew Jackson.
Lib rty has a more extensive and durable foundation in the United States than it ever has had in any other age or country.—George McDuffie.
0 ! make Thou us through ·centuries long, In peace secure, in justice strong;
Around our gift of freedom draw
The safeguards of Thy righteous law.
-John G. Whittier.
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.—Samuel Adams.
, The Fathers of the Republic, in their almost inspiration, saw clearly that a gov-
\ ernment to be enduring and free must be a Union, not of States, but of the people,
l and they fashioned their work accordingly.-'—Roscoe Conkling.
May this immense Temple of Freedom ever stand a lesson to oppressors, an example to the oppressed, a sanctuary for the rights of mankind.—Marquis de Lafayette.
No words can depict, no pen can describe, the wonderful variety, richness, grandeur and beauty which the Almighty has stamped upon this, our favored land.—John Sherman.
Now every man, woman and child is raised to the dignity of an American freeman, and that bright, triumphant banner of liberty now floats proudly over every foot of American soil.—I. C. Parker.
We are all one, and we will maintain our nation as it was handed down to us, the most priceless heritage that ever sons inherited.—Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A.
The worth of valor, the beauty of endurance, the grandeur of self-denial and the sacredness of honor—for all of these our flag is the symbol, our Union the flower, our Nation the synonym.—Elbridge S. Brooks.
The kindred blood which flows m the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union.
—James Madison.
Let us strive to aid and advance the liberty of the world by patriotic fidelity and devotion in upholding, illustrating and advocating our own free institutions.—Robert C. Winthrop.
Our very air is instinct with freedom. Every inhalation on American soil is fraught with American ideas. It is impossible for sane people to live in this country and not become Americans.— Edmund J. Wolf.
Let it be Patriotism first, last, and always; Patriotism in the history, in the reading lesson; in the general exercises; in the flags that adorn the school-room.— Albert E. Winship.
I Our chief glory arises from the general welfare of our people, their contentment with their institutions, their enlightenment, and their general advancement in the vi(tues of Christian civilization— John Adams Kasson.
We cannot more effectually labor for the good of all men, than by pledging heart, brain and hands to the service of keeping our country true to its mission, obedient to its idea.—Thomas Starr King.
We are One by the configuration of nature and by the strong impress of art. We are One by the memories of our fathers. We are One by the hopes of our children. We are One by our Constitution and our Union.—Robert C. Winthrop.
The nation depends not on the wisdom of its senators, not on the vigilance of its police, not on the strong arm of its standing armies: but on the loyalty of a united people.—Parke Godwin.
We are a Republic whereof one man is as good as another before the law. Under such a form of government, it is of the greatest importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence.—Ulysses S. Grant.
That we live in the enjoyment of the fruits of our labors, that we live at all, perhaps, or live girt about by the blessings of civilization, we owe, under Providence, to our country. Let us prove ourselves true sons and daughters of such a mother.—Epes Sargent.
This is what I call the American idea of freedom—a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course a government of the principles of eternal justice—the unchanging law of God.—Theodore Parker, D. D.
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus, these are the principles that have guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.—Thomas Jefferson.
Our country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;—still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.—Robert C. Winthrop.
If this country is to reach the full development which we believe to be possible, it must be by maintaining in all its integrity the Constitution which our fathers framed, and in giving steadfast and uncalculating support to the Union which they formed.—Hugh S. Thompson.
God's mercy will still lead our country on. On under the dearest flag that freemen ever bore. On in the broad sunshine of liberty, equality, and justice. On to the inspiring music of the Union. On along the grand highway of the Nation's glory to the future of our country's hope.—John M. Thurston.