Quotes About Patriotism

One of the foundational attributes of Americanism is our sense of brotherhood.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

'Conservative,' to me, means someone that has an appreciation for the Constitution, that has an appreciation for a limited government and has an appreciation of our nation's founding and our history.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

France is my home.

The French want less Europe and more France.

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

My dream was to play for France. It's been my dream since childhood.

I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.

America, to me, is freedom.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

French people love sport, and they love their national teams even more.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," he said solemnly. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland.

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

To have played for England was my ultimate ambition, and to do so at four World Cups and represent Team GB at a home Olympics was beyond the wildest dreams I had when first starting out.