When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao TzuI 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. NixonPatriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark TwainWhenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. MenckenFrance has more need of me than I have need of France.
Napoleon BonaparteTonight, 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 ObamaIt doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.
Sunil ChhetriWe 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.
Theodore RooseveltGold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham LincolnIf there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas JeffersonI will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.
George W. BushPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand RussellIt is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham LincolnThe army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon BonaparteWe are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.
Joe BidenI hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham LincolnWe will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald ReaganHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell‚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.‘
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen 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.
Winston ChurchillI 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.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMy fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. KennedyThere is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawOne 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.
Michelle ObamaYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston ChurchillHoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
Clint EastwoodAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. TrumanThe path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.
John F. KennedyAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham LincolnEveryone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf 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.
Madeleine AlbrightIf you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
Robert KiyosakiHere 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 BidenIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganI have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. EisenhowerI see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!
Barack ObamaThe income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will RogersNo 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.
John F. KennedyAmericans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. PattonI have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
Julius CaesarAre 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.
Khalil GibranI 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 JeffersonAmericans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Stephen KingThe 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. KennedyI 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.
Nelson MandelaIf you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We’re a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
Madeleine AlbrightThe Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
David BowieMy mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.
Nipsey HussleWhat pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph AddisonIt 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 HarrisI was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn MonroeOur 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.
Michelle ObamaA man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore RooseveltI think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.
Alice WalkerThe man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore RooseveltFor other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry Kissinger