Quotes about Patriotism

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.

I am a man who loves my country, the United States.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

The honor of a nation is its life.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.

True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.

Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.

America has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

Tis July's immortal Fourth; all fountains must run wine today!

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.