Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans.

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.