George S. Brown Quotes

Is it possible that the people of the U.S. enjoying the blessings of freedom under the only republican government on earth have not virtue enough to support it?

The citizens of America are her monarchs. No country deserves so well of its people, and none is so dependent upon them.

We have a great nation to help govern. We who are citizens of this great republic are favored children, yet we are all the time complaining; but that is one of the inalienable privileges of an American to complain about his neighbor and government-always crying for a change. But, with all of its faults, this is the best government for man on the face of the earth

I take being an American very seriously.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

God bless our American institutions. May they grow better day by day.

Liberty is what we Americans wanted most of all.

It is as natural for an American to sympathize with the cause of liberty as it is for a mother to love her own child.

For citizens to always be ready to defend and to maintain American ideals of public justice and liberty would add to the self respect of the people. It will teach the people to think of their government as a unified and exalted power for good in the world—humane, unselfish, and aspiring.

Let cannon and bell at high noon call the people from sport or study or toil, to reflection on that great life so nobly lived. Let the universal display from tenement to State House of the flag of the United States of America remind the people that our country is the United States because of Abraham Lincoln.

Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

I am a loyal American. I am extremely proud of the work I have done for the United States and for my country and her people. I expect to be treated as such by the representatives of my government and those who report its work.