Patriotic Quotes
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.
The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
