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
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs 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
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
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
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
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. — Carl Schurz 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
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
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca the Younger 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
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
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and… — Marilyn vos Savant 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
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. — Hubert H. Humphrey 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