46 Best Patriotic Quotes That Complement Your American Pride
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.” 🇺🇸
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Josiah Soto is the assistant editor of news and social for The Pioneer Woman. He helps manage the website’s social channels, in addition to writing high-performing news and entertainment content daily.
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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 ...