Patriotism Quotes

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above, Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love."

Cecil Spring Rice

"I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land."

William Blake

"Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!"

Robert Burns

"My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing."

Samuel Francis Smith

"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body."

Henry St John Bolingbroke

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Francis Bellamy

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle."

Ernest Renan

"A nation's existence is a daily plebiscite."

Ernest Renan

"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

Martha Gellhorn

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Freedom is never given; it is won."

A. Philip Randolph

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

William Faulkner

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage."

Thucydides

"What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."

Pearl S. Buck

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Dr. Seuss

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

"Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

"The Constitution is not a mere lawyers' document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"