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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

— Rufus Choate

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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856)

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Dictionary of American Maxims‎ (1955)

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke The Exploration of Space (1951)

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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