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

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

  • The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

    George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.5
  • What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

    Cato act 4, sc. 4 (1713) See Nathan Hale 1
  • We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

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

  • Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

    "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • God bless America, land that I love.

    Land   America   Berlin  
    "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
  • 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 love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

    "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.
  • You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

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

    Speech in Senate on Compromise Bill, 17 July 1850
  • We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

    William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library
  • 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.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  • Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage
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