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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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

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

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. – Paul Sweeney

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. – Adlai Stevenson

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