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Pocket Patriot
Quotes from American Heroes
Edited by Kelly Nickell
Writer's Digest Books, 2005
ISBN 1-58297-370-9
$7.99 paperback, 256 pages
About the Book
Embrace your patriotic spirit with inspirational quotes from more than 200 men and women who have and continue to shape the course of this great nation!
We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always.
John McCainPatriotism is our obligation to those who have gone before us, to those who will follow us, and to those who have died for us.
George W. BushHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Mohammed AliHeroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia EarhartThe vitality of our democracy depends on the active participation of each generation of citizens.
John GlennThe sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
Robert F. KennedyWhere there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah WinfreyIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Noam ChomskyIn an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning, we all wake up as Americans.
John KerryWhere liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin FranklinThose who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas PaineThe future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Ronald ReaganRemember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Davy CrockettInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.When will our conscience grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltI only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan HaleNo country is more loved by its people.
Herbert HooverWhenever you have a chance, say something good about our country.
Jimmy CarterOur goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom.
John F. KennedyIn your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.
John F. KennedyWe all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter but our common humanity matters more.
Bill ClintonThe real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPolitics is war, without bullets and shells—usually.
Colin Powell
