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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

…Sean Penn claimed to be ‘serv[ing] the country’ by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I’ve never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.