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

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

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

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

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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

The heart is forever inexperienced.

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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.

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.

The honor of a nation is its life.

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

‚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.‘

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

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

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.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

America is the greatest country in the world.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

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

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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 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.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I 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.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

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

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.

God 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.‘

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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