Barack Obama Quotes

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The country is the people.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

I believe all of us want to do good for our country.

When I hear of nationalism in my country today from the youngsters, I want to sit them down and tell them that flags and songs are not nationalism. Stopping at the traffic signal, opening the door for a lady, doing something for your country is nationalism.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

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

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.