Bob Dole Quotes

I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

This nation under God

The American way of life is not negotiable.

Britain is at its best when we stand up for the values that we believe in.

We must continue to ensure that the legacy of the Greatest Generation is preserved and protected so that all Americans can work to embody the ideals and values of those that came before them.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.