Aurora Raigne

America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.

Val Saintsbury

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.

Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

William Shenstone

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

John Stark (Battle of Bennington - 1777)

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equal

Paul Sweeney

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Mark Twain

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

Henry Van Dyke

Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Bill Vaughan

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

John Wayne

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

Daniel Webster

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

Wendell L. Wilkie

I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.