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- Inspirational Quotes
Looking for some patriotic quotes about your country America? We have rounded up the best collection of American quotes, sayings, slogans, captions, (with images and pictures) about freedom, patriotism, dreams, equality, unity, military and more.
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There is no day more important than Independence Day for celebrating what makes America and Americans special! Celebrated on the 4th of July, this Federal Holiday honors the nation’s history and allows people to come together with family and friends, enjoy time outside, and show their pride in red, white, and blue.
Famous American Quotes
- “Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
- “America is not just a country, but a way of life.”
- “America, to me, is freedom.” – Willie Nelson
- “America is not just a country, It’s an idea.” – Bono
- “I think patriotism is like charity -It becomes at home.” – Henry James
- “Only Americans can hurt America.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus
- “America stands for the land of opportunity.” – Michael Grimm
- “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child.” – Phil Vassar
- “America is another name for opportunity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “My favorite thing about United States? Lots of Americans, one America.”
- “America is a land of opportunity, and don’t ever forget it.” – Will Rogers
- “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”– Nathan Hale
- “We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.”– Charles F. Browne
- “Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.” – John Gunther
- “America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.” – Bobcat Goldthwaite
- “America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.” – Marshall McLuhan
- “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”– Mark Twain
- “America has as much diversity in peoples as it does in geographies.” – Terri Guillemets
- “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.” – Claudia Pemberton
- “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X
- “Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.” – Ronald Reagan
- “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”– Edward Abbey
- “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner
- “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else.” – Winston Churchill
- “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”– Elmer Davis
- “There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.” – Charles Kettering
- “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
- “We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.”
- “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”– Bill Clinton
- “America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.” – Max Lerner
- “Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has become the strength of America.” – Gary Locke
- “Americans in unity, and unity in Americans!” – Every Body’s Toast Book and Convivial Companion, 1851
- “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.” – Tony Blair
- “You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “When they say America is a land of opportunity, it’s true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.”– Vijay Singh
- “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 been, never will be.” – John Wayne
- “If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.” – Geraldine Ferraro
- “There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.”– Jesse Ventura
- “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.” – Dorothy Fuldheim
- “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” – Rosa Parks
- “Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.” – Oscar Wilde
- “May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country!” – Daniel Webster
- “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” – Aldai Stevenson
- “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”– Benjamin Franklin
- “The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The land of opportunity. You just need the right people and the right work ethic and you can accomplish anything.” – Bob Poser
- “We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”– Barack Obama
- “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” – Louis D. Brendeis
- “You know, that diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people. “ – Russell Simmons
- “The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” – Madeleine Albright
- “What we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.” – Hubert Humphrey
- “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.” – Walter Lippman
- “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell Willkie
- “The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.” – Christopher Hitchens
- “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” – Franklin D Roosevelt
- “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”– Harry S. Truman
- “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” – Marilyn vos Savant
- “If you can speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you can speak only one language you’re an American.”
- “There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “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.” – Herman Melville
- “Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. “ – Robert Kennedy
- “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”– George S. Patton
- “My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.” – Leonard Nimoy
- “Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”– John Quincy Adams
- “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “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.” – Robert J. McCracken
- “What does the Flag mean? It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here generations.” – Henry Cabot Lodge
- “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”– Abraham Lincoln
- “The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”– John Adams
- “One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.” – Margaret Mead
- “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” – Ronald Reagan
- “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
- “America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity. “ – Marco Rubio
- “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” – George Washington
- “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.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”– Samuel Adams
- “We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.”– Mark Twain
- “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
- “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
- “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty” – John F. Kennedy
- “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
- “America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.” – E.E. Cummings
- “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”– John F. Kennedy
- “If you’re worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you’ll reap the rewards of your hard work and you’ll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.” – Bruce Campbell
- “When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.” – Martin Scorsese
- “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.” – Henry Van Dyke
- “The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don’t think that we use that. We don’t talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don’t use that. I think we should talk about who we are – that melting pot that we’ve become.” – Steve Stoute
- “Go with your first thoughts; they’re usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It’s all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That’s what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.” – Richard Danko
- “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.” – Adlai Stevenson
- “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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”– Ronald Reagan
- “We’re Americans, with a capital A… You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts!… But there’s no animal that’s more faithful, that’s more loyal, more loveable than the mutt.” – Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, and Harold Ramis “Stripes”
- “Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There’s America the Goliath – the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.” – Shashi Tharoor
