The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. — Virginia Foxx
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue — George M. Cohan
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope. — John Philip Sousa
The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. — Adrian Cronauer
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. — Dave Grohl
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? — John Wayne
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw
United States: the country where liberty is a statue. — Nicanor Parra
There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag. — Donald Trump
God bless America, land that I love. — Irving Berlin
It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here. — John Wayne
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 United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. — Irving Berlin
Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united. — Martin Yan
Short Usa Patriotic Quotes
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. — John Dickinson
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
American Patriotism Quotes
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington
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
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams
Love your country, but never trust its government.
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
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders. — Samuel Adams
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution — Frederick Douglass
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
Inspirational Patriotic Quotes
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin
The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country. — Andrew Johnson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. — Benjamin Rush
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
Patriotic Quotes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. — Aldous Huxley
Christian Patriotic Quotes
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man. — Alexander Hamilton
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
People can doubt me, and they’ll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. — John F. Kennedy
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. — Benjamin Rush
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship. — Grover Cleveland
Patriotism In America Quotes
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams
He’s for real. If you look up the definition of patriotism in the dictionary, his picture is there. — Bill Miller
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. — Woodrow Wilson
I believe in the strength of US institutions and democracy. Peaceful transition of power is at the core. Joe Biden won the election. — Ursula von der Leyen
I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India — Narendra Modi
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
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. — Calvin Coolidge
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. — Wendell Willkie
I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society. — Cardi B
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson
Good Patriotic Quotes
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk". — Harry Browne
I beseech you never to deprive me of your most noble patronage and to believe me when I say that I will never forget a prince so replete with goodness and great merits. — Antonio Vivaldi
When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born. — Lao Tzu
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. — George Carlin
I do not feel like I am on par with Messi and Ronaldo yet. I need to win trophies to match them. I try to help my team and country as good as possible to do just that. — Antoine Griezmann
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from. — Emmylou Harris
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. — Howard Zinn
Patriotic Flag Quotes
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
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
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling. — C. L. R. James
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells. — Liz Truss
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. — Woodrow Wilson
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. — Thomas Sowell
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. — Henry Ward Beecher
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us. — Al Sharpton
Independence Day Patriotic Quotes
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. — J. Horace McFarland
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved. — Elbert Hubbard
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. — John Adams
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. — Lee Greenwood
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
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves. — Nikita Khrushchev
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism — Sinclair Lewis
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. — Hal Moore
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame. — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. — William McKinley
When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism! — Unknown Author
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb. — Shane Claiborne
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it. — Jeff Miller
There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. — Mary Tyler Moore
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition. — Alexander H. Stephens
Unpatriotic Quotes
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. — Robert Fisk
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. — Sayings
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country. — Steven T. Byington
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not. — Patti Smith
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. — Rand Paul
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them. — Robert Reich
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. — James Madison
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. — L. Neil Smith
I love my country, not my government. — Jesse Ventura
I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism. — Shepard Fairey
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world. — Herman Melville
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish. — Geraldine Ferraro
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow. — John Stark
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. — Roger Wicker
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker
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
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. — Hubert H. Humphrey
He loves his country best who strives to make it best. — Robert Green Ingersoll
And I'm proud to be an American,
Where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died,
Who gave that right to me
And I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,
Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA — Lee Greenwood
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. — Samuel Francis Smith
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. — Charles Farrar Browne
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. — Thomas Jefferson
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack. — Gideon Raff
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. — Neil Young
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. — Naomi Wolf
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001. — Butch Otter
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
Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression. — Marjane Satrapi
I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again. — Steve Carell
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