The patriotic quotes in this blog post are perfect for celebrating the 4th of July! Whether you’re looking to inspire patriotism or just want a few patriotic quotes to share on social media, we’ve got you covered. These patriotic quotes will be sure to make your Independence Day celebration go with a bang.
It’s that time of year again! Independence Day is right around the corner. We hope you’ve been working on your patriotic quotes for this patriotic holiday, and we want to share with you some of our favorites. Whether you’re planning a patriotic party or just looking for a few 4th of July quotes, these are sure to help get the patriotic love flowing in no time!
What better way to celebrate America’s Independence Day than patriotic quotes! These patriotic quotes are perfect for any occasion, whether you just want to spread some love on the 4th of July or have something patriotic in mind. With the help of our list, you can find that perfect patriotic quote that will get your American blood pumping!
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Best Patriotic Quotes
■ It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust
■ We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. ~Val Saintsbury
■ National honour is national property of the highest value. ~James Monroe, first inaugural address, 4 March 1817
■ It is the love of country that has lighted, and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland
■ Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. ~Ulysses S. Grant
■ For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
■ I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
■ 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
■ 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, a responsible government, and human equality. ~Adlai Stevenson
■ Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
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Inspirational Patriotic Quotes
■ There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton
■ A real patriot is a fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~Bill Vaughan
■ Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson,
■ “Our country, right or wrong.” When the right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. ~Carl Schurz
■ Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~Seneca
■ Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! ~Daniel Webster
■ There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish
■ The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~Thomas Jefferson
■ Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally, I know she is better than every other country. ~Sinclair Lewis
■ My favourite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. ~Val Saintsbury
■ This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis
■ America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne
■ Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis
■ Patriotism is easy to understand in America – it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge
■ All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
American Patriotic Quotes
■ Star-spangled happiness and banner waves of pride. ~Cherishe Archer
■ My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. ~Author Unknown
■ 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. ~Felix Frankfurter
■ I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams
■ May I never wake up from the American dream? ~Carrie Latest
■ What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” ~Marilyn Vos Savant, in Parade
■ The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America. ~Mirakel Reves
■ If our country is worth dying for in time of war, let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in a time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish
■ The territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. ~James Garfield
■ I think there is one higher office than the president, and I would call that patriot. ~Gary Hart
Patriotic Quotes to Make You Smile
■ I believe in America because we have great dreams – and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell L. Wilkie
■ Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ~Woodrow Wilson
■ 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
■ 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 men label you as they may. ~Mark Twain
■ 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. ~Woodrow Wilson
■ Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson
■ America is a passionate idea, or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood, or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
■ Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce
■ The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson
■ I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
■ 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
■ We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. ~John F. Kennedy
■ Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. ~Giuseppe Mazzini
■ 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
■ If you are ashamed to stand by your colours, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
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16 Patriotic Quotes to Make You Proud
■ May the sun in his course visit no land freer, happier, more lovely than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster
■ He loves his country best who strives to make it the best. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
■ 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
■ Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John Gunther
■ 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
■ What we need are critical lovers of America – patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
■ America is a tune. It must be sung together. ~Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds
■ How often do we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney
■ 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
■ If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. ~Geraldine Ferraro
■ We can’t all be Washington’s, but we can all be patriots. ~Charles F. Browne
■ To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~Currielene Armstrong
■ We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
■ He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
■ 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. ~Henry Cabot Lodge
■ Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under the USA’s constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. ~Martin H. Fischer
■ 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
