Best Patriotic Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions.

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

You can be a patriot and challenge the government without disrespecting the flag.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.