There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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!

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

‚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.‘

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

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

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.

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

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

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

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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

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

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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.

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.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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 carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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.

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.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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 been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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 United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.