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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

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.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

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

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

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

Giving is true having.

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

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

I love being a part of the country-music community.

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 see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

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

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.