Quotes about Patriotism

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.      My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

As President Truman put it, "Being an American is more than a matter of where you or your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal".

Democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.

Years later it occurred to me that I was doing the same thing when I was helping my daughter memorize "Paul Revere's Ride." I was teaching her to love sacrifice and goodness and truth and beauty, and I was teaching her the history of America and therefore teaching her to love America.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.