Quotes on Patriotic

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.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

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

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.

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

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

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

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

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.