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  • It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  • Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

    Patriotic   Eye   Usa  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America
  • All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • 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.

    Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919
  • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

    Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
  • America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

    Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919
  • 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.

  • Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

    1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.
  • Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

    Truth   Patriotism   Doe  
    Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press
  • Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

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

  • But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

    John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
  • Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

    George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17
  • 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 (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”
  • The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

    Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

    Heart   Men   Patriotism  
  • 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.

    "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.
  • There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

  • The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • 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 (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation
  • Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

    "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.
  • I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

    "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.
  • The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

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

    Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”
  • There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  • From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

    "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14
  • I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.

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