to make sure materials "promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights" and don't "encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike or disregard of the law."
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Thomas Jefferson letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith
Categories: Patriotism
Date: February 21, 1825
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
John Adams letter to Benjamin Rush
Categories: Patriotism
Date: April 18, 1808
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
George Washington letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania
Categories: Patriotism
Date: September 5, 1789
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
Joseph Warren Boston Massacre Oration
Categories: Patriotism
Date: March 6, 1775
Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.
Benjamin Rush letter to His Fellow Contrymen: On Patriotism
Categories: Patriotism
Date: October 20, 1773
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
James Madison letter to James Monroe
Categories: Patriotism
Date: December 16, 1824
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
George Washington upon fumbling for his glasses before delivering the Newburgh Address
Categories: Patriotism
Date: March 15, 1783
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
George Washington Farewell Address
Categories: Patriotism
Date: September 19, 1796
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
George Washington General Orders
Categories: Patriotism
Date: July 2, 1776
Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
George Washington Farewell Address
Categories: Patriotism
Date: September 19, 1796
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington General Orders
Categories: Patriotism
Date: August 23, 1776
The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
