21 Best Patriotism Quotes

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

General Hummel: Did they bother to tell you who I am and why I'm doing this or are they just using you like they do everybody else?
John Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
General Hummel: Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.
John Mason: I don't quite see how you cherish the memory of the dead by killing another million. And, this is not combat, it's an act of lunacy, General Sir. Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot.
General Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
John Mason: "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.
[Hummel strikes him, and he falls to his knees]
John Mason: Thank you for making my point.
General Hummel: Where are the guidance chips?
[Points his gun at Mason's head]
General Hummel: WHERE ARE THE GUIDANCE CHIPS?
John Mason: I've destroyed them.
General Hummel: That was a bad move, soldier.

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight of America.

Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence.

I represent Latin America, but first and always, I represent Puerto Rico. – Roberto Clemente

Every home run I hit carries the flag of my people. – Roberto Clemente

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. – Colonel Nathan R. Jessup

I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. – Colonel Nathan R. Jessup

This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. – President Josiah Bartlet

We’re not being unpatriotic, are we? By feeling poorly? – Hilda

I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine.

We have a new national anthem. It is called Kazakhstan, Greatest Country in the World. – Borat

In the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and fourteen, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn.

I never said a word against the United States. I love this country. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

We have room for but one loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. – Theodore Roosevelt

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. – Malcolm X

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – John F. Kennedy

In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. – Barack Obama

We, the people, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. – Barack Obama

Let us think about 'Nation First'. – Narendra Modi