Patriotic Quotes

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." — John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961) The lines preceding the quote read, "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans..." Add Category or Author

"Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism" — John Holmes
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." — Thomas Jefferson
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"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." — Albert Einstein
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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles." — George Nathan
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"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute." — William Fulbright
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"How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?" — Edith Wharton
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"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." — Thomas Jefferson
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"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States." — Noah Webster
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"I don't want the word patriotism being brought up over here because of these guys being professional and (some) other teams are not. Because when you have $100 million in the bank and a contract and you leave everything and take a chance and come over here and play for your country, if that isn't patriotism, I don't know what it is." — Manny Acta
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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have." — Theodore Roosevelt
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"How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." — George Washington
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"You can feel the patriotism here." — Maggie Weirdt
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"Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes." — Kjell Bondevik
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"Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides." — Jack Handey
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"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." — Thomas Paine
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." — Guy Maupassant
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"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart." — Winston Churchill
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"In Europe, we're seeing a wave of so-called economic patriotism. Protectionism is pernicious, pervasive, the ill-conceived political response to globalization and on the increase." — John Cridland
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"Who saves his country violates no law." — Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." — Thomas Jefferson
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