The army is the true nobility of our country.

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.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

The sergeant is the Army.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

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.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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

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

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

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.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

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

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

We 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.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

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 have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

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.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

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

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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.

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

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

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

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

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

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

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

The honor of a nation is its life.