Share your favorite Patriotic quote..

I have two:

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.- Bono

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.----William Jefferson Clinton

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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
Ringo Starr

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"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

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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

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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." B Franklin