Quotes about Patriotism

Jimmy Van Heusen was a top security test pilot in World War II as well as being a great songwriter. He was absolutely incredible. Van Heusen inspired me to write music.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.