Quotes About Patriotism

Let's treat this country first and foremost.

I am a loyal American. I am extremely proud of the work I have done for the United States and for my country and her people. I expect to be treated as such by the representatives of my government and those who report its work.

The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

America will honor our treaty obligations.

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

I've always been one to want to represent my country. I've done it on a few occasions and I've had tremendous success.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

It was just beer, women and Spitfires, a bunch of little John Waynes running about the place.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Can you believe that? Americans spitting on the men who have sworn to defend them, on the men who've sworn to obey the orders of the elected, civilian government.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

The worst moment was always taps. It didn't matter if the bugler played it well or poorly, in tune or out; there was something in the mournful ache of the music, and how it spoke of men dying before their time for something they only vaguely understood and being only vaguely appreciated by the people on whose behalf they died, that made it hurt so much.

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

Some 50 Americans were killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 94 casualties. According to Gage, the Redcoats suffered 65 killed, 157 wounded, and 27 missing, for a total of 272 casualties.41 The patriots exhibited excellent marksmanship for shooting flintlocks in anger, many for the first time in their lives. By comparison, U.S. forces in Vietnam expended 50,000 rounds to cause a single enemy casualty.