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2025 September 19
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"Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong." |
"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions." |
"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." |
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2025 September 18
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"It takes two wings to fly." |
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights,
makes the most reliable soldier on earth." |
"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national
existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and
Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side,
and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." |
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2025 September 17
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"From the saintly and single-minded idealist
to the fanatic is often but a step." |
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance." |
"He who passively
accepts evil
is as much
involved in it
as he who helps
to perpetuate it." |
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2025 September 16
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived." |
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom." |
"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few." |
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2025 September 15
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"Never give up, never surrender, and always go for the win." |
"When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity. |
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." |
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