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

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.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

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.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

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.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

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

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

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

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.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

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

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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.

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

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

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

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

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.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

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

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.