Patriotic Quotes

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


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


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



This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis



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



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. ~Terri Guillemets



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, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. ~Geraldine Ferraro


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



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


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



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



Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis


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


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


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