Quotes

National honor is national property of the highest value.
-James Monroe

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
-George Bernard Shaw

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
-Andrew Johnson

Patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
-Henry James

America is a tune. It must be sung together.
-Gerald Stanley Lee

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
-Adlai Stevenson

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
-Thomas Jefferson

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
-J. F. Kennedy

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
-John Wayne

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
-Clarence Darrow

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
-Hamilton Fish

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
-Anonymous Author

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
-Woodrow Wilson

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-Abraham Lincoln

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all. By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
-John Dickinson

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
-Calvin Coolidge

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
-Daniel Webster

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
-Charles Browne

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
-Hubert Humphrey

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
-Benjamin Franklin

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
-Bill Clinton

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
-Nathan Hale