Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

My greatest honor was to serve my country.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

I've served my country.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Boy, the things I do for England.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

When I look at his gallant services, finding him first in the military school of the United States, educated at the expense of his country—taught to love the principles of the Constitution; afterwards entering its service fighting beneath the Stars and Stripes, ... I cannot understand how he can be willing to hail another banner, and turn from that of his country; .... If I could not unsheathe my sword in vindication of the flag of my country, ... I would return the sword to its scabbard; I would never sheathe it in the bosom of my mother. Never! Never! Never!

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

I love serving this country, and I miss serving this country.

As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.

My father was a patriot.

I'm an emotional woman when it comes to service to our country. I watched many people's children leave and go serve. This is something that is the fiber of the McCain family. It was nothing more than me just saying I believe in this country so strongly.

I have dedicated my entire professional life to the United States of America.

I've spent 20 years in the Army, and I'm just so fiercely proud of being British.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.