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Note: Not all these authors are
from the U.S.A.; however, the sentiments can be applied to
patriotism all around the globe.
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
America is a tune. It must be sung together. Gerald Stanley Lee,
Crowds
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. Charles
F. Browne
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that
perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade
[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the
tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai Stevenson
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
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 Stevenson
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents
sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your
heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home
that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves
therein you may prepare to ascend to him. Giuseppe Mazzini
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
National honor is national property of the highest value.
James
Monroe, first inaugural address, 4 March 1817
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country
where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. Paul Sweeney
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more
lovely, than this our own country! Daniel Webster
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is
the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can
see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great
peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in
glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a
rugged finger to heaven. David Lloyd George
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, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that
it is truly worth living for in time of peace. Hamilton Fish
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.
Lee Greenwood
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and
moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle
to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human
equality. Adlai Stevenson
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
Samuel F. Smith, "America"
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. John
Gunther
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human
brotherhood or it is chaos. Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America.
Mirakel Reves
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek
another flag.
Author Unknown
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! Daniel
Webster
If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, theres
nothing you cant accomplish. Geraldine Ferraro
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
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
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing
and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be,
while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
Lyndon B. Johnson
We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of
America. Val Saintsbury
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears
like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love my freedom. I love my America. Jessi Lane Adams
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
Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under
USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you
start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. Martin H. Fischer
He loves his country best who strives to make it best. Robert G.
Ingersoll
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing
the holy fire of patriotism.
J. Horace McFarland
"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when
wrong to be put right.
Carl Schurz
Off with your hat, as the flag goes by!
And let the heart have its say;
you're man enough for a tear in your eye
that you will not wipe away.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday
as of the men whose people have been here many generations. Henry
Cabot Lodge
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
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
Star-spangled happiness
and banner waves of pride.
Cherishe Archer
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
America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.
Aurora Raigne
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is
right with America.
William J. Clinton
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one
America.
Val Saintsbury
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It
is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in
waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous
as well as strong. James Bryce
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
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of
happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. Louis D.
Brandeis
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is
their own. Seneca
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its
hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. James
Garfield
Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
George M. Cohan
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those
who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to
be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the
best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of
self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from
other nations.
Francis John McConnell
I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we
have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. Wendell L.
Wilkie
To me, being an American means feeling safe. Currielene Armstrong
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the
Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty
for their souls. Robert J. McCracken
It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to
serve her by words.
Sallust
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not
let America grow old in spirit. Hubert H. Humphrey
May I never wake up from the American dream. Carrie Latet
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices
that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call
that patriot. Gary Hart
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. Author Unknown
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is
wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk
this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an
unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
country, let men label you as they may. Mark Twain
All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought
for us long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express
their faith in their country by working to improve it. Hubert H.
Humphrey
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
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
Rudyard Kipling
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to
understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their
hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
John F. Kennedy
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other
country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
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Patriotic Quotations: United States of America