Quotes About Patriotism

Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules;Of Hector, and Lysander, and such great names as these;But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compareWith a tow, row, row, row, row, row for the British Grenadier.

I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.

Yankee Doodle came to townRiding on a pony,He stuck a feather in his hatAnd called it macaroni.Yankee Doodle, keep it up,Yankee Doodle dandy,Mind the music and the step,And with the girls be handy.

Don't sell America short.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont

When law can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow, An' when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show, Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaise God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.

From the halls of Montezuma,To the shores of Tripoli,We fight our country's battlesOn the land as on the sea.

Behind freedom their are heroic people ready to defend it.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good luck.

That's why you'll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags because they are idols. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it.

You will strip away your weakness, your cowardice, your hesitation. You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets—you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.

You will eat country and breathe nation.

You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets–you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.

The Americans were badly discouraged. Twelve days to go, stripped of their gear, sniffling, they huddled in a Kraków McDonald's and invoked middle-school platitudes about Cornwallis's surrender and Valley Forge, about pitching crates of tea into Boston Harbor and bloody-soled snow marches for the good of the Republic. We must not quit now, they mumbled, and dipped their chicken nuggets into a tasteless sauce.

Turn not your country's hand against your country's heart!

I have as warm a regard for him as you do. The fact remains that with all his patriotism, he can be a political liability. He speaks in the Senate as if he were living in Plato's Republic instead of Romulus's cesspool.

God save the King!" Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile. "God save 'em both!" he whispered.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first state, so whether it does very well on the economic front or not, is not central to public support for it.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.