Louis XVI Quotes

A good nation I will make live.

National service is America at its best.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

No one can undermine national unity.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

What matter if they hang me, provided the rope by which I am hung bind this new Germany firmly to your throne.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

In this war I am completely English.

It's your flag and my flag.

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

Let every American … swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others. Let reverence for the laws … become the political religion of the nation.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

Our country cannot function when its people have lost faith; be it faith in God, faith in their country, faith in their leaders, or faith in its system.

The people of this country come first—not the institutions.

Long shall Germany live in shame and humiliation, a prey to inner conflict and alien arrogance, until her people return to the ideals from which they were seduced by selfish ambition, and until true religion and loyalty, unity of purpose and self-denial shall again render them capable of erecting such a building as this.