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Make America Great Again..It Starts With You

One path we shall never choose is the path of submission or surrender.

Sarah Pappas
Jul 18, 2016
University of Central Florida
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Make America Great Again..It Starts With You

There is so much violence and hate spreading across our nation. I have yet to find the words to express my mind about the condition of my country. So rather, I have put together a list of quotes about America that I think every American needs to reflect on. There is always hope for our nation. I have faith that we can and will survive this turbulent time of our nation's history.

1. "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln


2. "May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right." -- Peter Marshall


3. "What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect, and resources to do something about them." -- Henry Ford

4. "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." -- Abraham Lincoln

5. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain

6. "The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." -- John F. Kennedy

7. "America will fall without shot being fired. It will fall from within." -- Nikita Krushchev

8. "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within." -- Joseph Stalin

9. "It is time to set aside political correctness and replace it with the bold values and principles that founded our nation and caused it to race to the pinnacle of the world faster than any other nation in history." -- Ben Carson

10. "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." -- Thomas Jefferson

11. "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and genius of America. America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

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