Quotes About Patriotism

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

It is nothing, to give one's life for Ireland. I'm not the first and maybe I won't be the last. What's my life compared with the cause?

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Canada is a big part of my life.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

The cost of freedom is always high -- but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America—there are no "white" or "colored" signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

The enormous bloodlettings that nations visited on one another in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would surely convince all but the lunatic that appeals to motherland and fatherland had no place in a modern society.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

His was the nation's sacrifice, And ours the priceless gain.

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag," she said.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

He [Clemenceau] had one illusion—France; and one disillusion—mankind, including Frenchmen.