If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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