Barack Obama: “I promised that I would return as President of the United States.”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

there will be no kings

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.