These are the times that try mens souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember as we look toward the future that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity not simply for ourselves but for others the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it to recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me as it gives every boy and girl a chance. It gave me schooling independence of action opportunity for service and honor.
True love of country is not mere blind partisanship. It is regard for the people of one?s country and all of them; it is a feeling of fellowship and brotherhood for all of them; it is a desire for the prosperity and happiness of all of them; it is kindly and considerate judgment toward all of them. The first duty of popular self-government is individual self-control. The essential condition of true progress is that it shall be based upon grounds of reason and not prejudice. Lincoln?s noble sentiment of charity for all and malice toward none was not a specific for the Civil War but is a living principle of action.
The nations of the world look to the people of this country for leadership. They have seen our youth in action. They have seen their courage and their strength. Off the battlefield they have seen and admired the human kindness and the tolerance of the men who went overseas for us and for them. May we stand firm in our conviction that America has achieved a way of life that we can all cherishand cherishing strive ever to guard and improve.
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Quite a number of people also describe the German classical author Shakespeare as belonging to the English literature because quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon he was forced by the authorities of that country to write in English.
And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
These are the times that try mens souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily
What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vise versa.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
I nauseate walking; ?tis a country diversion I loathe the country.
He that will not when he may When he would he should have nay.
God made the country and man made the town.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
Every man has his own vocation talent is the call.
Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember as we look toward the future that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity not simply for ourselves but for others the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be.
He that will not when he may When he would he shall have nay.
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it to recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me as it gives every boy and girl a chance. It gave me schooling independence of action opportunity for service and honor.
Diogenes when asked from what country he came replied I am a citizen of the world.
Every country has the government it deserves.
True love of country is not mere blind partisanship. It is regard for the people of one?s country and all of them; it is a feeling of fellowship and brotherhood for all of them; it is a desire for the prosperity and happiness of all of them; it is kindly and considerate judgment toward all of them. The first duty of popular self-government is individual self-control. The essential condition of true progress is that it shall be based upon grounds of reason and not prejudice. Lincoln?s noble sentiment of charity for all and malice toward none was not a specific for the Civil War but is a living principle of action.
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
The nations of the world look to the people of this country for leadership. They have seen our youth in action. They have seen their courage and their strength. Off the battlefield they have seen and admired the human kindness and the tolerance of the men who went overseas for us and for them. May we stand firm in our conviction that America has achieved a way of life that we can all cherishand cherishing strive ever to guard and improve.
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Quite a number of people also describe the German classical author Shakespeare as belonging to the English literature because quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon he was forced by the authorities of that country to write in English.
Our countrys honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail we shall become infamous to the whole world.