American Patriotism Quotes

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.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

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.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

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.

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.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

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.

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

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.

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

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

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

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

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.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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.

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.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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!

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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.