Quotes on American Patriot

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

These are the times that try men's souls.

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

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

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

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.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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.