Quotes About Patriotism

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We will not be going back - no withdrawing. No compromises!

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

I do believe in my national identity. I'm very proud, of what I come from and where I come from, and there are values up there that I like and that I hold on to: loyalty I suppose, and a sense of humour, and a lack of self pity.

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

You're not just playing for one city in Toronto, you're playing for Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton.

I'd love to shoot something in Toronto; I'd love to bring something to Canada. I'm dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I'm from.

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.

I've got Argentinian blood running through my veins, and I've always wanted to wear the shirt of my country.

I have grown up in a family where every one is a part of the defence forces, so freedom and everything related to independence runs deep down my veins.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

Show that good old team spirit. Wave the flag, give 'em hell, and all that.

And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.

One's country was like one's self. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The charge I myself should bring against the German people is that of over indulgence in patriotism. Out of it have grown most of their follies.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.