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PATRIOTIC QUOTES
There is something magnificent in having a country to
love.
James Russell Lowell
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship
in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are
known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…
Thomas Paine
Throughout its history, America has given hope, comfort and inspiration to
freedom’s cause in all lands. The reservoir of good will and respect for America
was not built up by American arms or intrigue; it was built upon our deep
dedication to the cause of human liberty and welfare.
Adlai Stevenson
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s
and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American.
Daniel Webster
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an
American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson
Patriotism is easy to understand in America;
it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the
quality of our search shall be the nature of the American that we created.
Waldo Frank
We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the
democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by
our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be
remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our
compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
Hubert Humphrey
The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must
always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from
local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same
religion, manners, habits and political principles. You have in common cause
fought and triumphed together. The independence and liberty you possess are the
work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and
successes.
George Washington
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 success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Cather
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize
an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow Wilson
I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be
sufficient to say I am an American. Our flag shall then wave in glory over the
ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government may impose.
Happy thrice happy day. Thank God, to reach this envied state we need only to
will. Yes my countrymen. Our destiny depends on our will. But if we would stand
high on the record of time that will must be inflexible.
Gouverneur Morris
O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the
tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the Old World is overrun with oppression.
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled
her. Europe regards her like a stranger and England hath given her warning to
depart. O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression.
Thomas Paine
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of
private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy
country as their last asylum.
Samuel Adams
Great has been the Greek, the Latin, the Slav, the Celts, the Teuton, and the
Anglo-Saxon, but greater than any of these is the American, in which are blended
the virtues of them all.
William Jennings Bryan
"American Mission" speech
What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree
of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his
citizenship. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of
man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.
An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease, and security in order that
he and his children may retain the rights of all free men.
Harold Ickes
"I Am an American" speech
The whole history of our continent is a history of the imagination. Men imagined
land beyond the sea and found it. Men imagined the forests, the great plains,
the rivers, the mountains – and found these plains and mountains. They came, as
the great explorers crossed the Atlantic, because of the imagination of their
minds – because they imagined a better, a more beautiful, a freer, happier
world.
Archibald Macleish
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or
it is a chaos.
Max Lerner
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region
where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be
found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage.
Ronald Reagan
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that
quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh, and the
tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the
Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a
willingness of the heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Americans America is something more than a promise and an expectation. It has
a past and tradition of its own. A descent from men who sacrificed everything
and came hither, not to better their fortunes, but to plant their idea in virgin
soil, should be a good pedigree. There was never a colony save this that went
forth, not to seek gold, but God.
James Russell Lowell
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary Mccarthy
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation, evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a
builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions – bound
together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America - The place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all
the time.
Thomas Wolfe
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is
a country in the mind, and so eternal.
Archibald MacLeish
Our flag is our national ensign, pure and simple, behold it!
Listen to it!
Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate.
Robert Winthrop
You cannot qualify war in harsher terns that I will. War is cruelty, and you
cannot refine it.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who
have neither fired a shot not heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who
cry aloud for more blood, more vengence, more desolation. War is hell.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
There is no “Republican,” no “Democrat,” on the Fourth of July, - all are
Americans. All feel that their country is greater than party.
James Gillespie Blaine
Among the natural rights of colonists are these: (1) a right to life (2) to
liberty (3) to property; together with the right to support and defend them as
best they can.
Samuel Adams
We are not so much a nation as a world.
Herman Melville
There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition, and not
our circumstances.
Martha Washington
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You
have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
-Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, 1863
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most
democratic in the world.
Eldridge Cleaver
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good
makes democracy possible.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Generosity is the flower of justice
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The American is wonderfully alive; and his vitality, not having often found a
suit-able outlet, makes him appear agitated on the surface; he is always letting
off an unnecessarily loud blast of incidental steam. Yet his vitality is not
superficial; it is inwardly prompted, and as sensitive and quick as a magnetic
needle. He is inquisitive, and ready with an answer to any question that he may
put to himself of his own accord; but if you try to pour instruction into him,
on matters that do not touch his own spontaneous life, he shows the most
extraordinary powers of resistance and oblivescence; so that he often is
remarkably expert in some directions and surprisingly obtuse in others. He seems
to bear lightly the sorrowful burden of human knowledge. In a word, he is young.
George Santayana
"In the beginning, all the world was America."
-John Locke, 17th Century
A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not
eliminated by violence.
John Foster Dulles
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
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
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Our country is the world-our countrymen are mankind.
William Lloyd Garrison
What then is the American, this new man?...He is an American, who, leaving
behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the
new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank
he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great
Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men,
whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America;
and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution
was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent States.
John Adams
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the liberty of every individual
citizen becomes interesting to all.
Thomas Jefferson
In this unconquerably and justifiably optimistic nation nothing undertaken by
free men and free women in impossible.
Robert E. Sherwood
It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope and indeed the hope of all mankind
that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and
carnage of the past -- a world founded upon faith and understanding -- a world
dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish
-- for freedom, tolerance and justice… Let us pray that peace be now restored to
the world and that God will preserve it always. These proceedings are closed.
General Douglas MacArthur, accepting the Japanese surrender Sept. 2, 1945
The Declaration of Independence! The interest which in that paper has survived
the occasion upon which it was issued; the interest which is of every age and
every clime; the interest which quickens with the lapse of years, spreads as it
grows old, and brightens as it recedes, is in the principles which it proclaims.
It was the first solemn declaration, by a nation, of the only legitimate
foundation of civil government. It was the corner stone of a new fabric,
destined to cover the surface of the globe. It demolished at a stroke the
lawfulness of all governments founded up on conquest. It swept away all the
rubbish of accumulated centuries of servitude. It announced in practical form to
the world the transcendent truth of the inalienable sovereignty of the people.
John Quincy Adams
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing
which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature,
and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the
indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his.
General George Patton
In war there is no prize for the runner-up
General Omar Bradley
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
Saint Augustine
This war will not be over by the next commercial break
US spokeperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War
... going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.
You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.
Jed Babbin, former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush
administration
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
General George S. Patton
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
General George S. Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces
when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you've hit bottom.
General George Patton
In forty hours I shall be in battle; with little information; and on the spur of
the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions; But I believe that
one`s spirit enlarges with responsibility and that; with God`s help; I shall
make them; and make them right.
General George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton, Jr.
What's the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in
the butt?
George W. Bush