50+ Patriotic Quotes about America
I love America and have been collecting patriotic quotes for many years. So, in honor of our country’s 250th birthday, I thought I’d share a few of my favorites here. Know of any good Americana quotes I’ve missed? Please share them with me in the comment section!
50+ Patriotic Quotes for Proud Americans
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…. “
– US Declaration of Independence
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
– Preamble to the United States Constitution
“Freedom lasts only as long as your willingness to defend it.”
– Author unknown
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right in America.”
– Bill Clinton
“Kings and Parliaments cannot give the rights essential to our Happiness. We claim them from a Higher Source—from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature.”
– John Dickinson
“O LORD, you have made our nation great; yes, you have made us great. You have extended our borders, and we give you the glory!”
– Isaiah 26:15, NLT
“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessing they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
– Thomas Jefferson
“America is too great for small dreams.”
– Ronald Reagan
“In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”
– John Quincy Adams
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
– Peter Marshall
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
– Patrick Henry
“Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord.”
– Psalm 33:12, NIV
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
– Alexander Hamilton
“A belief in Jesus Christ is the very fountainhead of everything that is desirable and praiseworthy in our civilization, and this civilization is the flower of time.”
– Teddy Roosevelt
“If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
– President Ronald Reagan
“When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.”
– Proverbs 28:2
The Star-Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see
by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave…
O’er the land of the free
and the home of the brave?
– Francis Scott Key
“Our government, conceived in freedom and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
– William Jennings Bryan
“Whenever a free man is in chains, we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
– Daniel Webster
“Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.”
– Benjamin Rush
“I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
– Nathan Hale
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
– Winston Churchill
“Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.”
– John 15:13
“The great pillars of all government and of social life are virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
– Patrick Henry
“They who can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests.”
– Andrew Jackson
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
– Emma Lazarus
“We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom.”
– Steve Forbes
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.”
– Author unknown
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
– John F. Kennedy
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“America is another name for opportunity.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.”
– Daniel Webster
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
– Harry S. Truman
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone….”
– John Quincy Adams
“Religious faith is the foundation of free government.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
– George Washington
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
– Patrick Henry
“The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.”
– Thomas Paine
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
– Herbert Hoover
“Man is not made for the State but the State for man, and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
– Mark Twain
“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”
– Carl Sandburg
“The proper means by which we increase the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”
– William Shenstone
“America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God’s blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.”
– Donal Wildmon
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports….And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
– George Washington
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
– Thomas Paine
God bless America
God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night
With a Light
From above.
From the mountains,
To the prairies,
To the oceans,
White with foam.
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
– Irving Berlin
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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