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.
- Woodrow Wilson
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
- Hubert Humphrey
National honor is national property of the highest value.
- James Monroe
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
- Thomas Jefferson
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
- J. F. Kennedy
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all. By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
- John Dickinson
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
- Andrew Johnson
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
- John Wayne
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
- Thomas Campbell
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
- Bill Clinton
Patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
- Henry James
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
- Clarence Darrow
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
- Calvin Coolidge
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
- Hamilton Fish
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
- Daniel Webster
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
- Unknown
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
- Charles Browne
