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Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Sep 10, 2025
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
National honor is national property of the highest value.
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
I have sworn upon the altar of god.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
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.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.