What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let's interrupt a week of unbridled American patriotism for a half-assed celebration of Mexico. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would like to think that we are on a move that could be like [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan appealed to the average… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I suspect the next 10 years will be years of turmoil and hardship the globe over, and with that will come a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, "Kill them all, and let God sort them… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Steve Englehart’s latest idea for Doctor Strange was appropriately zany: Strange and his lover/apprentice Clea would be whisked back in time to… — Sean Howe Copy Share Image
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image