Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country Author:Sinclair Lewis
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights Author:Felix Frankfurter
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world Author:Herman Melville
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn'tYou cannot shirk this and be a manTo decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to you Author:Mark Twain
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls Author:Robert J. McCracken
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assum Author:Francis John McConnell
Our great modern RepublicMay those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose Author:Ulysses S. Grant
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegianceIt is also owed to justice and to humanityPatriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong Author:James Bryce
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! Author:Thomas Jefferson
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 Author:Woodrow Wilson
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations Author:Henry Cabot Lodge
Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's constitution have proved the bestWherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it Author:Martin H. Fischer
America is another name for opportunityOur whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hopeSo it was in the beginningSo it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
Sometimes people call me an idealistWell, that is the way I know I am an AmericanAmerica is the only idealistic nation in the world Author:Woodrow Wilson