828 Quotes About Patriotism

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

We don't vote to make someone's life better, we vote to make our country better.

If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our people are represented as patriotic heroes, their enemies as grasping imperialists, or subversive rebels. In other words, our national histories are propaganda, not well balanced investigation.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

We are serving no one man. We are serving our country.