"We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Home Quotes #Rights Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
“Action creates/a taste/for itself.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2010). “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
“The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.”
“Might have, could have, may have, should haveâ€”the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.”
“A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn.”
“The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.”
“To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.”

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