As an American citizen, I feel it born in my nature to share in fullest measure all that is American.

I sympathize in all the hopes, aspirations and fruitions of my country.

There is no pulsation in the animated frame of my native land which does not thrill my nature.
There is no height of glory we may reach as a government in which I should not feel myself individually lifted; and there is no depth of degradation to which we may fall to which I should not feel myself individually dragged.

In a word, I am an American citizen.

I have a heritage in each and every provision incorporated in the Constitution of my country, and should this heritage be attempted to be filched from me by any man or body of men, I should deem the provocation sufficiently grievous to stake even life in defense of it.