Nation and Patriotism

next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth

E pluribus unus .

Not until I went into the churches of Americaand heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius andpower. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good America will cease to be great.

There is no Jewish blood in my veins, But I am hated with a scabby hatred By all the anti-Semites, like a Jew. And therefore I am a true Russian.

North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Every subject’s duty is the king’s; but every subject’s soul is his own.

 

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—

We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

[The Nobel Peace Prize shall be awarded to] the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

The time will therefore come when onehundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America, equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms.

And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.

 

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order—a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

 

Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,

 

Are you a politician who says to himself: ‘I will use my country for my own benefit’? … Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: ‘I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.’

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

There is no such thing as “the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

The Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government of the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral purpose. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.