Quotes about Patriotism

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

I would rather be a Medal of Honor recipient then the President of the United States!

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.