Quotes About Patriotism

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

God—I don't know why—wanted me to be a Czech. It was not my choice. But I accept it, and I try to do something for my country because I live here.

Kuka täällä ryssää puhuu? – Koskela Suomesta. Syö rautaa ja paskantaa kettinkiä.

Teddy Roosevelt, during the First World War, used to talk about hyphenated Americans. He was talking about German-Americans who had a divided allegiance, and he said, "If you're an American and something else, you're not an American.

I feel a very deep respect for people who love their country . . Officer Werner Von Ebrennac

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

A civilian doing his work in the pursuit of national defense is just as much a soldier as a man in uniform, if not better; because patriotism is a moral quality which should be possessed by all.

There are many forms of service that you can render to your country ... what I want to impress on you is that if death is necessary to accomplish your end in upholding your dignity and that of your country then death should be nothing.

We are born to live a life which is valuable only if we live it unselfishly, not for our own gratification, nor for that of our family - but for our country. Men should not fear death, but dishonor and defeat. There is nothing more beautiful than to live and die for the defense of one's country against a common enemy. There is nothing meaner and more vile than to yield to that enemy without fighting to the last ditch.

First, they believe that when trouble comes to our country there will be Marines—somewhere—who, through hard work, have made and kept themselves ready to do something useful about it, and do it at once.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.