Usa Patriotism Quotes:

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

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

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

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

- Charles Farrar Browne

topic: Patriotism, Patriot, Inspirational Patriotic, Most Patriotic, Patriotism In America

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

- John Stark

topic: Sleep, Men, Patriotism, American Flag, Most Badass

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

- John Gunther

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

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

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

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Parking, American 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

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

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence Day, 4th Of July Inspirational

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

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

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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

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

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

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 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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

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

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

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

- Mark Twain

source: "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

topic: Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: 4th Of July, America, Needs, Independence Day Patriotic, 4th Of July Inspirational

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