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

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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

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

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

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’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 carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

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.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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.

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

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

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.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

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.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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.

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 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 the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

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

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

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.

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

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!

Only Americans can hurt America.

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.

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

‚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.‘

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

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

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

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

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

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