Allegiance Quote by Bryant McGill

“If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet.”

— John Philip Sousa

“When the thousands of people sang the national anthem, with their right hands over their chest, I cried. It was as if we were…

— Michael Patrick MacDonald

“Probably when people hear our national anthem they think of me. A real American hero.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?" I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or…

— David Levithan

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must…

— Howard Zinn

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that…

— Terry Pratchett

“When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.”

— Phoenix Desmond

We proved to the nation we could sing.

— Sarah Harding

“let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.”

— Plato

“So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look…

— Barack Obama