It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing

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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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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. – Thomas Paine

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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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