America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves. — Jon Stewart 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
Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her… — John Wayne 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
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for… — David Lloyd George 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
We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. — Carl Schurz 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
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image