“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”

“Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops”

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”

“But if we expect justice for ourselves, we must support it for others.”

“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest of society, self-support becomes impossible. As men grow more civilized, and the subdivision of occupations and services is carried out, a complex mutual dependence becomes the universal rule. Every man, however solitary may seem his occupation, is a member of a vast industrial partnership, as large as the nation, as large as humanity. The necessity of mutual dependence should imply the duty and guarantee of mutual support...”