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President John F. Kennedy.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his speech at the DC Civil Rights March.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
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Patrick Henry's "Treason" speech before the House of Burgesses in an 1851 painting by Peter F. Rothermel
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me Liberty, or give me Death!
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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George Washington
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
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Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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Francis Scott Key
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
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Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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[edit] Nominations

Feel free to add quotes about the United States or from notable Americans to the above list. Other quotes may be nominated here.