Quotes About Patriotism

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Everything belongs to the fatherland when the fatherland is in danger.

One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the strongernot only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.