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

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

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

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

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.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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.

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.

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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.

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

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

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.

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

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

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Tonight, 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.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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.

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

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

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

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

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

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.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

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

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

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

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.

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

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

‚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.‘

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.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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

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