Top 50 Patriotic Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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2. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

— Nathan Hale

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3. “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

— Patrick Henry

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4. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

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5. “United we stand, divided we fall.”

— Aesop

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6. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

— Ronald Reagan

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7. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy

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8. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

— Winston Churchill

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9. “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

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10. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

— Ronald Reagan

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11. “America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.”

— Ronald Reagan

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12. “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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13. “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

— Patrick Henry

14. “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

— Albert Einstein

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15. “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.”

— Malcolm X

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16. “Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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17. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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18. “I know there is a God – I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it – if he has a place then I am ready – we see the hand.”

— John F. Kennedy

19. “It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

20. “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

— George Washington

21. “No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

22. “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

23. “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

— Thomas Paine

24. “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”

— Ronald Reagan

25. “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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26. “It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...”

— Abraham Lincoln

27. “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

28. “Never take counsel of your fears.”

— Stonewall Jackson

29. “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

— Frederick Douglass

30. “Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”

— Calvin Coolidge

31. “Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”

— Frederick Douglass

32. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

33. “To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”

— Thomas Paine

34. “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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35. “Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

— Ronald Reagan

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36. “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

— Douglas Adams

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37. “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”

— Moshe Dayan

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38. “If you can’t get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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39. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

40. “The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”

— John F. Kennedy

41. “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

— Frederick Douglass

42. “To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

— Edmund Burke

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43. “Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”

— Calvin Coolidge

44. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

45. “I think Americans are very patriotic.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

46. “In the beginning, all the world was America.”

— John Locke

47. “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’”

— John F. Kennedy

48. “Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

— Ronald Reagan

49. “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”

— Gerald R. Ford

50. “Can’t wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it’s taking to VOTE.”

— Stephen Colbert