Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

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

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

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.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Only Americans can hurt America.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.