Patriotism Quotes

"Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by!"

Henry Holcomb Bennett

"Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Thomas Jefferson

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell

"By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people."

George Orwell

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."

"Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country."

Daniel Webster

"A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being."

Adrienne Rich

"I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home."

Henry James

"Our country is the common parent of all."

Cicero

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

Cicero

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Edmund Burke

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

Edmund Burke

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

Montesquieu

"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

Herbert Hoover

"Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."

William Cowper

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

Louis Brandeis

"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

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."

John Gunther

"There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone."

Edwin Markham

"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."

Giuseppe Garibaldi

"A people that loves freedom will in the end be free."

Simón Bolívar

"Homeland is humanity."

José Martí