‚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.‘

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

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

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

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

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

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.‘

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

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

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

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

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

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

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

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

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

True friends stab you in the front.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

At 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.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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.

Only Americans can hurt America.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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

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

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

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.

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

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

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.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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 patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.