Freedom isn't free...it costs every American the toll of taking responsibility for their own selves, their homes, and their country.

1. Eleanor Roosevelt said:
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the
long run, it is easier.”

2. Robert Kennedy said:
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself;
but each of us can work to change a small portion
of events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written the history of this generation.”

3. Henry James said:
“I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at
home.”

4. Abraham Lincoln said:
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain; that this nation shall have a
new birth of freedom; and that this government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.”

5. Ronald Reagan said:
“Freedom is never more than one generation
away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our
children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,
protected, and handed on for them to do the
same.”

6. Calvin Coolidge said:
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it
means looking out for yourself by looking out for
your country.”

7. Eleanor Roosevelt said:
“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity
of the individual, freedom and equality not only for
Americans but for all people on earth, universal
brotherhood and good will, and a constant and
earnest striving toward the principles and ideals
on which this country was founded.”

8. Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi said:
“This is a crisis against humanity, not a crisis
against one country or one race. So we have to
frame this as a fight between humanity and
inhumanity. Nothing else.”

9. Harry Truman said:
“America was not built on fear. America was built
on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable
determination to do the job at hand.”

10. John F. Kennedy said:
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your
country can do for you – ask what you can do for
your country.”

11. Calvin Coolidge said:
“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.”

12. Theodore Roosevelt said:
“This country will not be a good place for any of
us to live in unless we make it a good place for all
of us to live in.”

13. Barack Obama said:
“There is not a liberal America and a conservative
America – there is the United States of America.
There is not a black America and a white America
and Latino America and Asian America...there's
the United States of America.”

14. Jim Rohn said:
“You must take personal responsibility. You
cannot change the circumstances, the seasons,
or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is
something you have charge of.”

15. Hubert Humphrey said:
“What we need are critical lovers of America –
patriots who express their faith in their country by
working to improve it.”

16. Abraham Lincoln said:
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow
by evading it today.”

17. Winston Churchill said:
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

18. Steve Maraboli said:
“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential.
By not accepting personal responsibility for our
circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to
change them.”

19. Ronald Reagan said:
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no
weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so
formidable as the will and moral courage of free
men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries
in today’s world do not have.”