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Quote by Hamilton Fish
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve th

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. – Hamilton Fish

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Let freedom never perish in your hands. – Joseph Addison

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner

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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. – J. Horace McFarland

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