Patriotism And Freedom Quotes:

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Memorial Day, Peace, Hate, September 11th, Independence Day Patriotic

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Wisdom, Religious, War, Faltering, American Voters

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

topic: Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

topic: Strength, Peace, Children, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom

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

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

topic: Courage, Determination, Jobs, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Loyalty, Country, Peace, Patriotism And Freedom, American Patriotic

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

topic: Country, Liberty, Hazards, American Revolution, Civil Liberties

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Dream, Men, Humanity, Patriotism And Freedom, American Patriotism

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: 4th Of July, Rights, Blood, Patriotism And Freedom, Patriotism In America

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

source: "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

topic: Country, Mean, Patriotic, Inner Light, Patriotism And Freedom

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Funny, Wisdom, Country, Indian Patriotic, Modern Warfare 2

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.

- Barack Obama

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Responsibility, Unworthy, Patriotism And Freedom

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

- Mark Twain

topic: Thank You, Memorial Day, Courage, Independence Day Patriotic, Inspirational Patriotic

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

- Abba Kovner

source: "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

topic: Sheep, Holocaust, Slaughter, Inspiring Presidential, Presidents Day

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Mean, July 4, Inspiring Patriotic

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.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom, Inaugural Speech, Independence And Freedom

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

- Moshe Dayan

source: Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day, Social Revolution, Manure

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: 4th Of July, Blow, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Veterans Day, Courage, Memories, India Independence Day, Independence Day

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

- John Dickinson

source: "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

topic: Fall, 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence, July 4, Inspiring Patriotic

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July, Love Freedom, Independence And Freedom

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Freedom, Land, Failing, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

- John Adams

source: John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

topic: Government, Forever, Presidential, Our Founding Fathers, Patriotism And Freedom