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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
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.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
