Quotes About Patriotism

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation. ~ Warren G. Harding

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Denounce the government and embracethe flag. Hope to live in that freerepublic for which it stands.

There is no army greater than an unarmed united people defending a country.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

patriotism. During his lifetime of study he had concluded it was the most destructive force on the planet.

Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

Then she moved backwards, deeper into the shadow. All I could see was that she was barely there, like something you almost recall: the Pledge of Allegiance, your daddy's real name.

The hamburger was renamed the "liberty steak" and sauerkraut became "liberty cabbage.

As we stepped into the large mess hall, a band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner," and Old Glory was unfurled before us. I came undone. I couldn't help it; I began to sob. This was the first American flag we had seen in years. No one who had not experienced the past four years with us could understand what it meant to see that flag and hear that song. I thought my heart would burst within me with pride and with the first-born feeling of being really free!

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

Douglas MacArthur said it well: "However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and give his life for his country, is the noblest development of mankind.

In fact, they're total hypocrites when it comes to opposing American exceptionalism (or whatever you want to call the belief that living here is the ultimate privilege).