There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

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.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

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.

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

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

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

Only Americans can hurt America.

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

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

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.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

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

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.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

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.

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

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.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

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.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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.

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.

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

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

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

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.