Quotes About Patriotism

My folks built blood into the foundations of this country and I don't aim to see them torn down for no reason whatsoever.

What we have most to fear, I believe, are those within our own borders who think less of country than of themselves, who are ambitious for money, for power, for land. Some of these men would subvert anything, anything at all, my dear sir, for their own profit. They would even twist the laws of their own country in their desire to acquire wealth or power.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Every one seems to be scrubbing their white steps. All the houses look like tidy jails, with their outside shutters. Several have crepe on the door-handles, and many have flags flying from roof or balcony. Few men appear, and the women seem to do the business, which, perhaps, accounts for its being so well done.

Washington chose Wayne to lead a picked force of 1,350 infantry to mount a surprise raid against the new British outpost at Stony Point. The commander sketched out a plan to scale the 150-foot-high cliff overhanging the river, prompting Wayne, according to legend, to boast, "I'll storm hell, sir, if you'll make the plans!"21 To which Washington retorted drily, "Better try Stony Point first, general.

Far from being a pro-British lackey, much less a high-level spy, Hamilton stubbornly defended U.S. interests at every turn. He was bargaining with Beckwith, not groveling. He insisted that the United States should be able to trade with the British West Indies.

the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixons but between patriotism, & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other.

In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the American government.

All the romance of feeling that men in high places are above personal considerations and act only from motives of pure patriotism, and for the general good of the public has been destroyed. An inside view proves too truly very much the reverse. —ULYSSES S. GRANT to WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, September 18, 1867

Loyalty to the nation ALL THE TIME. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER.

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

It was a feeling born of ignorance, the kind of heady existential euphoria that gives birth to mere heroics or to the unthinking patriotism of the kind that we see so often during war. These are dangerous consequences indeed, and I am filled with chagrin at having been so misled.

Kinder?" Ash snorted. "Easier, you mean. Wrap it all in King and Country and forget what war really is. It betrays them, it betrays everyone who died.

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