American Patriotic Quotes

• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  4th Of July, Mean, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  Frederick Douglass

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885

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• From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  4th Of July, Mountain, Sides

  "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heirs

  John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.11, Harper Collins

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

  James Bryce

  Country, Memorial Day, Peace

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• 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

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Peace

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Blessing

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• Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

  George M. Cohan

  4th Of July, Heart, Blue

  "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

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  In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Embodiment

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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