Patriotic Quotes

Love of country is something many citizens of the world have in common. People of many nations celebrate not only their personal heritage, but the history of their homeland as well. The following collection of quotes relate to a love of freedom, independence and pride in one’s country. These are quotes that display great patriotism and the desire to build a country one can be proud of and pass on to future generations.

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” Abraham Lincoln

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” Calvin Coolidge

“In a chariot of light from the region of the day,
The Goddess of Liberty came
She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love,
the plant she named Liberty Tree.” Thomas Paine

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.” Socrates

“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!” Daniel Webster

“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” George Bernard Shaw

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” George William Curtis

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Benjamin Franklin

“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.” George Santayana

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” John Stuart Mill

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy." Roger Baldwin

“If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.” Phil McGraw

“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” John Dickinson

''If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there's an instinct for human freedom there are opportunities to change things there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice.'' Noam Chomsky

“Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves... The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this arm your cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most object submission... We have therefor to conquer or die." George Washington

“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.” Ambrose Bierce

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

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.” Robert Frost

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'" Martin Luther King Jr.

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.” Winston Churchill

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.” Thomas Carlyle

“He who loves not his country, can love nothing.” Lord Byron

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Casals

"Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom of making mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi

"I do not know what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death" Patrick Henry

“History does not teach fatalism.  There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” Charles de Gaulle

“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

“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