Patriot Day Quotes

I was really inspired by the way people responded, and I wanted to tell that story [ 'Patriots Day']. It's never been more difficult or complicated for me to make a movie. It's about my home, my people, my community.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the truck drove through and killed all these people. It's the new reality, unfortunately. The idea of trying to explore how we process this kind of event, how we survive emotionally, what we tell our kids: That was the movie [Patriots Day] we wanted to make.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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.

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

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

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.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

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.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.