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Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
Thomas Campbell
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Spencer W. Kimball
Patriotism is not a badge of blind obedience.
William O. Douglas
Patriotism is not a solitary virtue; it is the virtue of men in society.
Émile Durkheim
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar Bradley
Loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country.
George S. Patton
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
George Washington
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Jeff Miller
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
The only true test of courage is the willingness to stand fast when one is completely outnumbered.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is not the absence of danger. It is the presence of fear and the willingness to face it.
Anonymous
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
Winston Churchill
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
Mahatma Gandhi
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
A nation's identity is not only about its past, but also about its present and future.
Ban Ki-moon
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
Thucydides
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
In union, there is strength.
Aesop
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Nelson Mandela
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
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