Quotes on Great Patriotic

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

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.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

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.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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.

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.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

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.

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.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.