"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"But meddle not with any man for his religion: all governments ought to permit every man to enjoy his religion unmolested. No man is authorized to take away life in consequence of difference of religion, which all laws and governments ought to tolerate and protect, right or wrong. Every man has a natural, and, in our country, a constitutional right to be a false prophet, as well as a true prophet."  Joseph Smith, Jr.

"It is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in."  John F. Kennedy

"This will remain the home of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."  Elmer Davis

"Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written."  Ether 2:12

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."  Margaret Mead

"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."  Adlai Stevenson

"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."  George William Curtis

"What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."  Merilyn vos Savant, in Parade

"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots."  Charles F. Browne

"America is a tune.  It must be sung together."  Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

"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."  Abraham Lincoln