Elevate those guns a little lower.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”

“I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.”

“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.”

“The foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.”

“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

“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.”

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”

“People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not. I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.”

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“I don’t pray, but if I did, I’d pray to God that Trump doesn’t win.”

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

“Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their Constitution” 

“The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.” 

“it was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one.” 

“The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.” 

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” 

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

“Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.” 

“Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.”