“Fish and guests stink after three days.” · Traditional proverb, popularized in Poor Richard's Almanack (1736)
“The things that the flag stands for are created by the experiences of a great people.” — Woodrow Wilson · Flag Day address, 1917
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to set an example of modest, unostentatious living.” — Andrew Carnegie · The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.” — John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903