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

True friends stab you in the front.

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

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

Cleveland fans are awesome.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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

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

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

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.

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

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

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.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

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

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

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

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

I’m very loyal.

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

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Only Americans can hurt America.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

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.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

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

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

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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.

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.

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.

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.