“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, former six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.