Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

-- Washington's Farewell Address

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Woodrow Wilson

In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gave you.

Amy Tan

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence