I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Queen Elizabeth III am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn MonroeWho serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
VoltairePatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard ShawYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawUntil the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard ShawHoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
Clint EastwoodUntil we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill GatesThe vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe 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 RooseveltI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
Kamala HarrisI’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.
Narendra ModiWe 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.
Abraham LincolnPeople tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.
Greta ThunbergEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore RooseveltTonight, 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 ObamaWhenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham LincolnDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthurI’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
J. K. RowlingThe 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. KennedyHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
Albert EinsteinSo 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.
Barack ObamaThe people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Abraham LincolnThere 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.
Alexander HamiltonThis generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. RooseveltI should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert CamusIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond TutuThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas JeffersonEven when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.
Barack ObamaGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Bob MarleyA riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
VoltaireAmericans 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.
Richard M. NixonThere is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI 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 MandelaI have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
David BowieI 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 JeffersonStrike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen KellerPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand RussellI was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.
Jim MattisPatriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainI’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
Richard BransonAmericans 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. PattonStanding as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
Abraham LincolnIn terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
Lady GagaIf I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.
Abraham MaslowParticularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
BonoThere is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. ClarkeI was not an activist.
Joe BidenThere 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.
Jim MattisIf you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert FrostFans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor SwiftYou can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey NewtonThe honor of a nation is its life.
Alexander HamiltonThey 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.
Ernest HemingwayEverybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Paulo CoelhoI’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John WayneFixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack ObamaIt 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 Lincoln