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The average American is nothing if not patriotic. - Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic. – Herbert Croly

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Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. – Herbert Croly

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Faith
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. – Herbert Croly

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Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. – Jennifer M. Granholm

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I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America. – Glenn Beck

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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. – William J. Clinton

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While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. – John Linder

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