Quotes About Patriotism

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Which is I've had it with those ungrateful bastards. Give your all for your country and what do you get? Some punk kids wearing the American flag on their ass throwing stuff and spitting on you. It used to be if there was a war and you weren't in uniform you got spit on. The hell with `em.

I just accept whatever mission you give me, salute, and go do it. That's what I signed up for. I remember that JFK said to bear any burden, pay any price to assure liberty.

Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to express patriotism

Football is the "secret vice" of the civilized, wrote William Phillips in the journal Commentary in 1969. "Much of its popularity is due to the fact that it makes respectable the most primitive feelings about violence, patriotism, manhood.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nationallthe time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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 me label you as they may.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."

David McCullough, John Adams

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

Everyone loves Freedom but everyone isn't willing to serve our Country and fight for it. Today we honor those that have. Happy Veterans Day!

Happy Memorial Day to past, present and fallen soldiers. Today we honor you and salute you for defending our country and our freedom.

There is no greater sacrifice than giving one's life for their country. Memorial Day allows us to remember our fallen heroes, our loved ones who served and to pay our respects to the many who paid the ultimate price. God Bless each and every one of them.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.