370 Quotes About Patriotic

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.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.