True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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 cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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

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

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

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

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

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

‚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’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.

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

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.