“Many people lack an understanding of the real meaning of patriotism. They confuse love of government with love of country. The true patriot may love his country and utterly despise his government. The men who founded this country were true patriots. They loved this country, its very soil, but they hated the despotic tyranny of George III and his Parliament which clamped one oppressive law after another down upon them.
“Today millions of Americans love their country but hate the rotten, deceitful Government which maintains itself in power by confiscating the wealth and earnings of the American people, and uses this vast treasure to buy votes with promises of false security to people who do not understand that their Government cannot promise security as it has no security to give. The only security in this world is the security which each person has within himself, the ability to cope with the problems of life as they are presented. The only security our country possesses is a strong, virile, self-reliant people, and as a matter of fact, that is the only real security for the whole world, since we are trying to carry most of the world on our backs. Let us note well and preserve our greatest asset — the character of the American people.”
— Vivien Kellems, Chapter 6, Toil, Taxes and Trouble, 1952
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