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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Sep 10, 2025
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
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.
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.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
National honor is national property of the highest value.
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.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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.
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
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.
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.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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.
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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.
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.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.