Quotes about Patriotism

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.