Quotes About Patriotism

The merchant has no country.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

This is the Fourth?

Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

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 his 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.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

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. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her constitution, that we ought to watch every word we speak, and every thought we think, that we injure it not, even by mistake.

The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.

It is a matter worthy of observation, that the more a country is peopled, the smaller their armies are. In military numbers, the ancients far exceeded the moderns: and the reason is evident, for trade being the consequence of population, men become too much absorbed thereby to attend to any thing else. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achievements were always accomplished in the non age of a nation.

Always remembering, that our strength is continental, not provincial:)

Commerce diminishes the spirit both patriotism and military defense.

All their wishes centred in one, which was, that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back.

For trade being the consequence of population, men become too much absorbed thereby to attend to anything else. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

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 his country, but he that stands if now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

for this continent would never suffer itself to be drained of inhabitants, to support the British arms in either Asia, Africa, or Europe.

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

George Brush is my nameAmerica's my nationLuddington's my dwelling placeAnd Heaven's my destination.