The Boston Globe celebrated 9/11/01 with an article which began,
“It was hard to be a Muslim child after 9/11, and it stayed hard for a while. But edges softened and the children have grown up, defining for themselves an American way.” (By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff, 9/8/11; italics mine, JEB)
Scotland the Brave
Let Italy boast of her gay, gilded waters,
Her vines and her bowers, her soft sunny skies:
Her sons drinking love from the eyes of her daughters,
Where freedom expires ‘midst softness and sighs.
Scotland’s blue mountains wild,
Where hoary cliffs are piled,
Towering in grandeur are dearer to me.
Land of the misty cloud, land of the tempest loud,
Land of the brave and proud, land of the free.
Scotland the Brave, 1st and 2nd Stanzas, Anonymous
This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was
the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties. The Federalist No. 2, John Jay, 1787
“that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863
The United States 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."
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