Patriotism And Freedom Quotes

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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.

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

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

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

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.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

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.

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

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

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.

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 freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

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.

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!

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.

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 winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.