Patriotic Quotes - Page 12

• Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Civilization, Government, Custodians

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• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

  Daniel Webster

  Leadership, July, Patriotism

  Speech in Senate on Compromise Bill, 17 July 1850

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotism

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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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

  Peace, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.54, NYU Press

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• We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Commitment

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Heirs, Firsts

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

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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, President, World

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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• It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Fire, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.140, Algora Publishing

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• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Courage, Memorial Day

  Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952

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• The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Patriotism, Flags

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• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, People

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• Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Home, Character

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.92, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

  Hugo Black

  Wind, Judging, Political

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• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

  John Dickinson

  4th Of July, Fall, America

  "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Storm, Public Opinion

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Peace, Military, War

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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 then I am ready - we see the hand.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Storm, Ready

  The New York Times, May 15, 1964.

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• A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Doe, Causes

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• 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

  Country, Stars, Stripes

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• If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Country, Pain, Havens

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• Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Passion, Rights

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• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech to the National Press Club, The Independent, Volume 77, March 20, 1914.

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• The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Blow

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Thinking, Circles

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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