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

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster

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

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. ~Henry Cabot Lodge

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland

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