Usa Patriotism Quotes

• 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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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, 4th Of July, Mean

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

  Lee Greenwood

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

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• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

  George M. Cohan

  4th Of July, Heart, Blue

  "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

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  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

  Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Country

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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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• 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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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

  Max Lerner

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Ideas

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• I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

  Wendell Willkie

  Dream, 4th Of July, Believe

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

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

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• If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  4th Of July, America, Advantage

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• Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Blessing

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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

  Patriotic, Eye, Usa

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

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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 land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Ocean, Blessed

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

  John Stark

  Sleep, Flags, Widows

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• Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Speech, US Senate, 1872.

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