Quotes about Patriotism

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.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Father, would you make us more grateful for what you've given us in this country, and for the sacrifices of those who've spilled their blood. Would you make our government strong and keep us rooted in the faith of our forefathers. Help us to see our lives through eternal eyes and to realize that this life--though priceless--is but a vapor. And finally we ask...make us more like Christ, Father. No matter the cost.

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

I am a man who loves my country, the United States.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.