If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. – Author Unknown

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. – John F. Kennedy