America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham LincolnRead
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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