The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas JeffersonWhoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWithout education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Nelson MandelaI have never left another senator out to dry. Never.
Joe BidenTonight, 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.
Barack ObamaHoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
Clint EastwoodHappy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
BonoThe uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Robert Baden-PowellPart 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.
Douglas MacArthurIn a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
Jim MattisPakistan is not a unified country.
Noam ChomskyGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘
Benjamin FranklinNone of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
Fidel CastroI 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.
Richard M. NixonAmericans 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.
Richard M. NixonTo hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. WashingtonWe may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas JeffersonIn every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas JeffersonHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander PopeI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnThere is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.
Sunil ChhetriOVOXO will always be there.
The WeekndI have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.
Dolly PartonHere 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.
Joe BidenWhen we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
Brian EnoAs an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.
Margaret AtwoodWhen 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.
Michelle ObamaI didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne WestwoodThe greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
Madeleine AlbrightCanada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
Margaret AtwoodWe have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan QuayleProsperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will RogersI have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.
Thomas JeffersonWe cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry KissingerI hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham LincolnTest a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
ChanakyaIt 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.
Kamala HarrisMy dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham LincolnThe same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander PopeWhen we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George WashingtonPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand RussellI’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.
John WayneIt shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.
Dan QuayleOfficial dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous HuxleyGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham LincolnIf you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.
Dolly PartonI am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.
Sunil ChhetriI tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas JeffersonJust like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.
Jurgen KloppI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob DylanIt is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
VoltairePerhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard ShawThe honor of a nation is its life.
Alexander HamiltonThis 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.
Abraham LincolnThe American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.
Angelina JolieLet 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.
John F. KennedyTrust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln