Usa Patriotic Quotes:

America is another name for opportunity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Opportunity, Names, America, Inspiring Patriotic, Another Opportunity

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: Freedom, Learning, Self, Independence Day, July 4

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: 4th Of July, Revolution, American Revolution, Independence Day Patriotic, 4th Of July Inspirational

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: God, Country, War, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

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

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Military Soldier, Patriotism And Nationalism

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

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: God, Patriotic, Heart, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

- John Gunther

topic: Country, Ideas, Patriotism, American Patriotism, American Patriot

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

- Max Lerner

topic: 4th Of July, Ideas, America, Patriotism In America, American Patriot

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

- Gerald Stanley Lee

source: Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

topic: 4th Of July, America, Together, July 4, American Patriotic

National honor is national property of the highest value.

- James Monroe

source: James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

topic: Patriotism, Honor, Property, Patriotism In America, American Patriotism

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Heart, Blood, Patriotism, Inspirational Patriotic, Cement

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

- James G. Blaine

topic: Country, 4th Of July, United States, July 4th 1776, Inspiring Independence Day

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

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

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

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

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

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

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July, July 4th 1776, Inspirational Patriotic

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

- Clarence Darrow

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

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Thoughtful, Mind, Flags, Indian Patriotic, American Flag

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

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Country, America, Patriotism, American Patriot, Usa Patriotic

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

- Samuel Francis Smith

source: "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

topic: 4th Of July, Mountain, Sides, July 4, Inspiring Independence Day

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

- Joseph Addison

source: Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1

topic: Country, Patriotic, Patriotism, Patriotism In America, Usa Patriotic

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

- Geraldine Ferraro

topic: 4th Of July, America, Advantage, Patriotism In America, Usa Patriotic

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

- Sinclair Lewis

source: 1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic, July 4th 1776, American Patriotism

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Opportunity, Inspiring Patriotic, Divine Providence

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

- Wendell Willkie

topic: Dream, 4th Of July, Believe, 4th Of July Inspirational, 4th Of July Wishes

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

- Ulysses S. Grant

topic: 4th Of July, Blessing, Flags, American Patriot, American Patriotic

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Patriotic, Eye, America, American Patriotism, Great Patriotic

Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Stars, Blessed, Ocean, Patriotism In America, American Patriotism

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

topic: Men, Firsts, Facts, American Flag, Inspirational Patriotic

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

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: "Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

topic: Loyalty, Men, America, American Flag, Inspirational Patriotic

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

- Carl Schurz

source: Speech, US Senate, 1872.

topic: Country, Patriotism In America, American Patriotism, True Patriotism, Usa Patriotic

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

- John Burroughs

topic: Independence, Independence Day, Blank, July 4, Orators

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

- John Wayne

topic: Country, Patriotism, Faults, American Flag, Patriotic Religious

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman

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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

- George M. Cohan

source: "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

topic: 4th Of July, Heart, Blue, Heart Beat, Most 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

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, America, Inaugural, Inaugural Speech

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

- Lee Greenwood

source: Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

topic: Army, Proud, Proud To Be An American, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776