‚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.‘

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the 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.

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

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

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

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 army is the true nobility of our country.

Let 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.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Standing 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.

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.

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

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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.

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.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

It 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.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

OVOXO will always be there.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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

Americans 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.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

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.

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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

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.

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

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

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

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.