American Patriot Quotes

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.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

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.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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

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.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

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

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.

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

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

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

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

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

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.

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.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

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

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

These are the times that try men's souls.

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.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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.

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.

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.