Quotes About Patriotism

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget those who perished and the lessons learned on Sept. 11, 2001.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

I feel very honoured and proud to be playing for Nigeria.

The opportunity beckoned me to play for England, but I chose Nigeria because it has always been my ambition to play for the Super Eagles.

I'm proud of being a Nigerian international and am always committed to playing for my country.

There is no doubt that Montanans support our nation's efforts to enhance national security.

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my compatriots seemed to do.

I love China! I love my country even though it is not always good ro right,' my daughter proclaimed in a firm voice. Her words brought tears to my eyes. I also had a deep and abiding love for the land of my ancestors even though, because of my class status, I had become an outcast.

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.

The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home.

The rise of multinational corporations that know neither patriotism nor morality but only self-interest, has made accountability almost non-existent. At virtually every level, I discern a demand by business for docile government and unrestrained corporate individualism. Where industry once yearned for subservient unions, it now wants no unions at all.

He must protect the lives and interests of the people, appeal to his fellow citizens' patriotic interests, and, in general, set the welfare of the community above his own

I pledge to do what must be done to get everyone before they get you, America. Free country or no free country, democracy or no democracy—at the end of the day, say what you want . . . You have to admit this: you're American. Naked displays of raw proactive bully-power put a tingling feeling in your undershorts. You like to see the bad guys get it. Might

When Mr.Cunningham ran outside during the battle shouting Hurrah for Jeff Davis!, a Union shot clipped his ear. Mr.Cunningham ran back inside his house. His cheering was over for the day.

A plane dragged black letters through the air: Happy Birthday America—200 Years of Liberty and Independence. Who paid for it? He couldn't tell, so he added: Love, Buckwheat.

I am German forever, German 'nationalist'. The nazis are un-German.

Nationality?