No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

…she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from...

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ”American” before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the...

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen

I’d like to see a flag made not out of stars and stripes, but rather fingers and knuckles, so that it could really wave in the wind. It would be the most welcoming flag in...

No animal likes to be caged. A country is no different. Free a nation and watch it thrive.

Never let the sacrifice of others be for nothing by doing nothing.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say...

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect...

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.