Show Off Your American Pride by Reading These Patriotic Quotes
Having a sense of patriotism for your country can bring on a feeling like no other. It's nice to be proud of where you live while having others around you who share the same pride. In America, patriotism is essentially the reason why holidays like Independence Day and Memorial Day exist! Those days are used to remember specific historical events of this country, as well as to reflect on the hard earned freedom its citizens now have. (It helps that these holidays also bring on the most fun 4th of July festivities as well as the most decadent 4th of July food.) Something that helps accentuate this feeling are some good ol' patriotic quotes!
Here, you'll find a quote for just about every mood and occasion, including simple one-liners like Christopher Gadsden's words: “What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.” There are also longer verses with a little more to unpack like this quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt about freedom: “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” Thrown into the mix are a few unexpected Fourth of July quotes and Memorial Day quotes about patriotism by household names, like these words from John Adams: “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
Whether you're on the hunt for a patriotic Instagram caption or a pride-filled message to text to a friend who you're proud of, you're bound to find it here.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth.”
Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
“May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.”
Gerald Stanley Lee
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Bob Riley
“I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”
Frederick Douglass
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”
Christopher Gadsden
“What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.”
Douglas MacArthur
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
Bob Dylan
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Peter Marshall
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
Mac Thornberry
“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”
Barack Obama
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
Daniel Webster
“Independence now and forever!”
Wendell L. Wilkie
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
J.S.B. Morse
“I don't believe in the constitution because I'm American. I'm American because I believe in the constitution.”
John Adams
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
“Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”
Thomas Wolfe
“America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”
Moshe Dayan
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.”
Thomas Paine
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Lech Walesa
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.”
John Philip Sousa
“The red and white and starry blue is freedom's shield and hope.”
Rudyard Kipling
“All we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us long ago.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
Natsuki Takaya
“We shall go wild with fireworks... and they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.”
Aurora Raigne
“America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.”
Amy Tan
“In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.”
Mike Fitzpatrick
“The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.”
Bill Clinton
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.”
Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Rosa Parks
“I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“With freedom comes responsibility.”
Thomas Campbell
“The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree.”
Paul Tsongas
“America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.”
Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
Fanny Lewald
“That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.”
Lupita Nyong'o
“Dreams are the foundation of America.”
Elmer Davis
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Ronald Reagan
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
Gen. George S. Patton
“It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.”
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