Best Patriotic Words
641 Patriotic quotes by 287 unique authors
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
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I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place…
— John F. Kennedy
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Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think…
— Harry S. Truman
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
— Woodrow Wilson
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Elevate those guns a little lower.
— Andrew Jackson
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
— Andrew Jackson
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
— Andrew Jackson
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
— Frederick Douglass
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.
— John McCain
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We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
— John McCain
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My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.
— John McCain
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
— William Shenstone
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Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed…
— Henry Van Dyke
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses…
— Grover Cleveland
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Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
— Chester A. Arthur
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
— James A. Garfield
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They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
— James A. Garfield
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It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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