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.

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.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

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.

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

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

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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

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.

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

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

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.

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

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

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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

The honor of a nation is its life.

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

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

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.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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

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.

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

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

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

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.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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

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.