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

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’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’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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

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

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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.

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

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

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

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.

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

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

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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?

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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 hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

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.

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

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it’s very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

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.

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

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

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

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.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

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

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.