Saturday Night and I'm thumbing through my passport

I got my paperwork back earlier this week, and I'm sorted out for the time being.

For the 70 percent of Americans that don't have a passport, they're missing out on not only the opportunity to tour the world, but also some inspirational words printed on the top of each page. I figure I'd quote them below and encourage everyone reading to reflect on them.

• "O say does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." –Francis Scott Key
  
• "…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." –Abraham Lincoln
  
• "We the People Of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." –The Preamble
  
• "The principle of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as its mountains." –Daniel Webster
  
• "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair." –George Washington
  
• "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." –from the Declaration of Independence
  
• "We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream." –Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
• "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty." –John F. Kennedy
  
• "This is a new nation, based on a mighty continent, of boundless possibilities." –Theodore Roosevelt
  
• "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." –Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
• "For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say 'Farewell.' Is a new world coming? We welcome it – and we will bend it to the hopes of man." –Lyndon B. Johnson
  
• "May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad united the two great oceans of the world." –inscribed on the Golden Spike, ceremonially installed on 10 May 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah
  
• "We send thanks to all the Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We are glad they are still here and we hope it will always be so." –Mohawk version of the Thanksgiving Address.
  
• "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or sect, a party of a class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." –Anna Julia Cooper
  
• "Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation." –Ellison S. Onizuka