P. D. James Quotes

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

A nation with no equality, no solidarity, and no belief in its own cause is not a nation worth fighting for. It is not a nation that a young woman or a young man will kill and get killed for.

The country is the people.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

Tell our children that the fatherland is them and other children like them, and for them we must suffer and sometimes even die.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die today every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

A glorious death is his Who for his country falls.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

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.

For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.