Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Americans 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.

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

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

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.

OVOXO will always be there.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‚Am I really that oppressed?‘ but ‚Am I really that boring?‘

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

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.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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

The 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.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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

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

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

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 love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.