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

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

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

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.

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

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

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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.

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

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

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

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

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.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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

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

I think Americans are very patriotic.

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.