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

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

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.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

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.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

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

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

The honor of a nation is its life.

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.

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.

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.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

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

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

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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

Where liberty is, there is my country.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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

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

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

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.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

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.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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?

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

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’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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.

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

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

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.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!