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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. -

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. – Joseph Addison

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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. – Francis Ford Coppola

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. – Socrates

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. – John F. Kennedy

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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. – Aleksander Kwasniewski

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We cant equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And thats not just measured in words or gestures. – Jennifer Granholm

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I dont write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. – Jeanette Winterson

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

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