None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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.

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

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.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

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 am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Tonight, 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.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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.‘

I’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.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

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.

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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 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.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

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

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.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

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

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.

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

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

No 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.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

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.

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

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.