American Patriotic Quotes

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  4th Of July, Mean, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Country, Memorial Day, Peace

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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• We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heirs

  John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  Frederick Douglass

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Government

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Summer, Country

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Loyalty, Patriotic

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Memorial Day, Peace, Hate

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Heart, Patriotic, Eye

  Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896). “The Poems of H.C. Bunner ...”

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• You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

  Herman Melville

  Patriotic, Blood, Usa

  Herman Melville (1963). “The Works of Herman Melville”

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

  Calvin Coolidge

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Home

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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