USA Patriotic

America is a tune. It must be sung together. – Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds

[P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

National honor is national property of the highest value. – James Monroe, first inaugural address, 4 March 1817

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. – Thomas Jefferson

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. – John Gunther

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. – Author Unknown

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. – Woodrow Wilson

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. – Val Saintsbury

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. – Carl Schurz

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. – Woodrow Wilson

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. – Val Saintsbury

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. – Ulysses S. Grant

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. – Seneca

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. – James Garfield

I believe in America because we have great dreams – and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. – Wendell L. Wilkie