Great Patriotic Quotes - Page 3

• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

  "Offensive Remarks Are Part of Free Speech" by Hilary Hirschfeld, www.smudailycampus.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, People, Soul

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  Courage, Determination, Jobs

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

  John Wayne

  Patriotic, Flags, Wave

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• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

  Stephen Decatur

  Country, Military, Patriotic

  Toast at dinner, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 1816. This wording is quoted in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur (1848). According to Respectfully Quoted, ed. Suzy Platt, "Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland, gave a slightly different version in its April 20, 1816, issue (p. 136). A number of the toasts at the dinner for Decatur were included, probably reprinted from a Virginia newspaper, and Decatur's appeared as 'Our country - In her intercourse with foreign nation

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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• In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, 4th Of July

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Presidential, World

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• America is another name for opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Names, America

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strong, Blood, Independence

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  4th Of July, America, Usa Patriotism

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• The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

  Henry James

  Home, Patriotic, Thinking

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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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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• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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