American patriotism is not the vanguard of one political philosophy or party, indeed American patriotism can be defined by its utter indefinability.  This is because, like the rest of our nation, patriotism is an amalgamation of many ideas and people with only one defining attribute at its core: the love of the nation that allows us to be who we are.

We are the the first nation to be created on an idea – not because of loyalty or familiarity.  So go and celebrate the birth of the worlds great experiment – look back to see what we have achieved and look forward to hope for what we can become.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.