Quotes About Patriotism

I'm happy to be serving my country.

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.

I come from a military family, where service is seen as a badge of honor.

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

You don't go to some other country and bash our president.

My book is basically a love letter to America.

I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I'll be the first to say our military should always be fully funded.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

emotions among the British—pride, patriotism, nostalgia

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!…I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us….If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." The

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country," the novelist Sinclair Lewis

Coolidge told the veterans: "I recognize the full and complete necessity of 100 percent Americanism, but 100 percent Americanism may be made up of many various elements.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.1 —THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 5, 1775

we hear another president, impossibly young and dashing, his breath white in the inaugural air, telling us to ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country.

A true patriot salutes the flag but always makes sure it's flying over a nation that's not only free but fair, not only strong but just.

There can be here no divided allegiance," he wrote in those final stages. "We have room for but one flag, the American flag; for but one language, the English language; for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

A true patriot salutes the flag but always makes sure it's flying over a nation that's not only free but fair, not only strong but just. History and reason summon us to embrace love and loyalty—to a citizenship that seeks a better world, calls on those better angels, and fights for better days. What, really, could be more patriotic than that? What, in the end, could be more American?

who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it. Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he has at least some glimpse of hope that there will be ever some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.

I wish I understood my country. I can only love it.

Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman's ear for a tune. So when, at an official dinner, the marine band slipped into 'Edelweiss', he stopped mid-anecdote, rose to his feet, placed a reverential hand over his heart and stared into the blank mid-distance out of respect for the Austrian national anthem.