Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It’s known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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

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

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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

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

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

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.

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.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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.

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.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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

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.