By Other Notable Americans 02
(Paine, Van Dyke, Powell, Decatur, Sweeney, Lewis, Fosdick, Webster)

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…

Henry Van Dyke

Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Colin Powell

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.

Steven Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!

Paul Sweeney

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Sinclair Lewis

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Daniel Webster

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

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