“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
— Carl Schurz, remarks in the Senate, 1872

“There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.”
— Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Dedication of the Monument to General Ulysses S. Grant, 1922

“The individual has rights, but only the citizen has the power to protect rights. And the protection of rights is righteous.”
— Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Founders' Day Celebration of Carnegie Institute, 1921