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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.