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

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.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

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

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

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.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

It 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.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

We 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.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

There 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.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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.

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.

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

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

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Our 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.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

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

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

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

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

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The 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.

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