Patriotic Quotes

I meant to stagger these out but things got crazy so here they are all at once. We are so grateful to live here. We are grateful for all the many blessings and freedoms we enjoy. Perhaps most importantly we are grateful for the opportunity to politely disagree and peacefully protest without fear and to actively participate in our government. America isn't perfect but there is no other place I'd rather be.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

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

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

America is a tune. It must be sung together.
~Gerald Stanley Lee

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

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~Hamilton Fish

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
~Hubert H. Humphrey

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
~Benjamin Franklin

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~Thomas Jefferson