Quotes About Patriotism

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

It's always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.

the hardest of war's hard truths—that for a new nation to live, young men must die, often alone, usually in pain, and sometimes to no obvious purpose. He, more than anyone, would be responsible for ordering those men to their deaths.

Thomas Paine, who had a shrewd eye for military matters, was closer to the mark in a public letter to Admiral Howe published in early 1777. "In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with," Paine observed. "In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat.

blared "The Stars and Stripes Forever," clearly audible on the hillcrest, where a lieutenant who was immune to the prevailing confidence of his seniors murmured, "'Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.

stirring of epitaphs, "Mort pour la liberté." After viewing a military cemetery near Ste.-Mère-Église, a soldier on August 28 scribbled lines from A. E. Housman in his diary: "The saviors come not home tonight: Themselves they could not save.

USS Henry Gibbons.

What I have done is a duty that any Nicaraguan who truly loves his country should have done a long time ago.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

The silence of many is deafening. Especially when our country is under attack by those who challenge the moral values of our Constitution.

The old bonds of language, country, and king give way to the new connexions of trade. It destroys patriotism and substitutes cosmopolitanism.

Flags, like bodies, are powerful symbols.

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.

Patriotism based on the common good does not pander to divisiveness. True patriots don't fuel racist or religious or ethnic divisions. They aren't homophobic or sexist or racist. To the contrary, true patriots confirm the good that we have in common. They seek to strengthen and celebrate the "We" in "We the people.

The question will arise, and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, 'Which shall rule—wealth or man; which shall lead—money or intellect; who shall fill public stations—educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?'

he is awash in self-delusion, a condition especially dangerous in people who have significant power over others. Dimon doesn't see how he has contributed to the mess we're in. He doesn't acknowledge the inconsistencies between his preferred self-image as "patriot first" and his roles as CEO of America's largest bank and chair of the Business Roundtable. He doesn't understand how he has hijacked the system.

Když se snažíme vychovat z chlapc? dobré lidi, d?láme to ?áste?n? pro dobro své zem?.

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,Scots wham Bruce has aften led,Welcome to your gory bedOr to victorie.Now's the day, and now's the hour;See the front o' battle lour!See approach proud Edward's power—Chains and slaverie!

It was a' for our rightfu' KingWe left fair Scotland's strand.

We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free.

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. - Mark Twain

It's good to get away from Washington and back here in the United States.

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.

Flags were everywhere, and in the Square the band was playing "Yankee Doodle." The fifes tooted and the flutes shrilled and the drums came in with rub-a-dub-dub. Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni!