Browsing Topic Best Patriotic Quotes

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

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

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

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

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’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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.

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

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

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.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

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.