THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands;
one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

GOD BLESS AMERICA
God bless America.
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her,
Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the ocean, white with foam.
God bless America! My home, sweet home,
God bless America! My home, sweet home.

STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

"Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe."  Walter Elias Disney

“To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be a complete victory for those who would destroy liberty and justice for the individual."
Walter Elias Disney

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster

It is the love of country that has lighted, and that keeps glowing, the holy fire of patriotism.
Horace McFarland

One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea.
Kate Brownlee Sherwood

Let freedom never perish in your hands, but piously transmit it to your children.
Joseph Addison

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster

America.... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. Thomas Wolfe

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
 Cordell Hull

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt