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Show PATRIOTIC CREED FOR LOYAL AMERICAN'! I am an American and love my country. I love my country because it i opposed to tyranny and unjust privilege. privi-lege. I love my country because It Is a representative republic, where the people govern themselvs. I love my country because It la governed by laws, and not by official offici-al favor. I love my country because It stands for honorable peace and has no desire de-sire to annex other lands or territory by conquest. I love my country because it asks for itself nothing that it would not aBk for all humanity. I love my country because it is the land of opportunity for all, regardless re-gardless of birth or circumstances. I love my country because women are honored and respected. I love my country because it respects re-spects labor and holds the drone In disfavor. I love my country because of its free public schools and because it extends the rights andv privileges of native citizens to all who bey the laws, and interferes with no man's religion. I love my country because I can live my own life, where no man 1,8 good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. I love my country because it reveres re-veres the memory of those who sacrificed sac-rificed unto death that she might live, and. does not forget to honor those who survived the carnage of war in defense of my country and her flag, which I also stand ready to defend with my life if need be. |