Quotes About America...

• Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy, inaugural address (1961)
• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. — Guy de Maupassant, My Uncle Sosthenes
• Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. — Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
• No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own. — Seneca, Letter to Lucilius
• Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
  But spare your country's flag." she said.
  —John Greenleaf Whittier, Barbara Frietchie
• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." — Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
• The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie, An American Programme
• For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. — John Winthrop, speech founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)