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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Sep 30, 2025
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
God bless America, land that I love.
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.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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.
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.
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.
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.