America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
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.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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.
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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!
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
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.
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.
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.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
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.
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.
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