Patriotic Quotes

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

You can die for your country. I'll live for mine.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.