Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting...

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting...

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly...

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried...

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other...

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other...

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give...

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give...

Animosity is not a policy.

Animosity is not a policy.

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike...

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike...

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so...

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so...

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other...

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other...

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and...

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and...

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are...

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are...

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for...

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for...

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the...

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the...

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who...

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who...

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V...

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V...

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of...

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of...

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the...

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the...