Quotes About Patriotism

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Nobody is more of a patriot than I am, but I've very little confidence in politicians and even less confidence in wars.

air force bases, where libraries are revered.

And who would be willing to travel through hundreds of miles of wilderness, risking capture, carrying a letter telling the French to retreat? A young Virginian volunteered. George Washington, only twenty-one years old... found a wilderness guide and a translator to accompany him and set off...

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

I made the song 'Sandese aate hain' for the soldiers to sing in their bunkers.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I sang the National Anthem with soul.

I got tired of seeing people rush through the national anthem so they could have their popcorn and get to the game. Nobody ever sang the anthem with soul. It was always done clinically and they always stuck to the original. I put feeling into it. I sang it in a soulful manner.

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

South Africa must come first in everything we do.

South Africa is now my country.

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

I care about national sovereignty of America.

What belongs to our independence and national sovereignty, we will never give up.