Time to stand

Patriotism is not just singing songs like the National Anthem or flying a flag in front of your house. Those things are great, but true patriotism in my opinion is a devotion that goes beyond all that stuff, and something you feel deep in your bones, and always in your heart. Its a feeling you feel in your mind and heart everytime you see a flag waving, a soldier who has been wounded, and funeral for a soldier who gave his life. That is just some of the things you need to have part of your personal patriotism. Your patriotism is not just a love for the country in which you live, but it also a hope that goes beyond just complaining about your government officials, or voting in elections. It should be about how much your willing to do for your country without thought of reward or accolades for yourself. Do you know what that patriotism is for yourself?
A true Patriot in my Opinion;

1. Understands not only the history of his country and what sacrifices have been made to establish his way of life
2. He also understands the sacrifices that men must make in order to preserve that way of life and defend it at all cost.
3. They realize that tyranny has laid it’s grasp upon the people and the laws of the land and it has corrupted the entire landscape across our nation.
4. They have learned these things slowly over the years as the evidence has become more and more prevalent.
5. They have learned of the treacherous deeds of government, and the corporate degenerates they have chosen to serve. 
6. They become angry and they seek to support the defense of our country in one way or another based on the constitutional call to defend the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.

Domestic enemies are growing by leaps and bounds on a daily basis, and we as the citizens of this nation need to take a stand against this kind of attack lest we fall as other nations have fallen to tyranny. We faced tyranny many times before and have defeated it for other nations around the world. Are we going to allow our nation to fall prey to this or are we going to stand

 

Author: Me

This nation was built on biblical principles and the notion of freedom. We were meant to be free, and we have fought for freedom for everyone else, and once again it seems we are going to have to fight for our own freedoms again. Are you ready to do your part?

Henry Ward Beecher

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

George William Curtis

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Samuel Adams

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” 

Napoléon Bonaparte

“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.” 

George S. Patton Jr.

“It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier with discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.” 

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country” 

Bertrand Russell

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.” 

George Carlin

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” 

Andrew Jackson

 “Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.”

Thomas Paine

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…”

Nathan Hale

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!” 

Andrew Johnson

“When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.”

Patrick Henry

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Rudyard Kipling

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.

Mark twain

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” 

“There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other, neither the government nor the entire nation is privileged to dictate to any individual what the form of his patriotism shall be. The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: "The King can do no wrong." We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: "Our country, right or wrong!" We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had:-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.” 

Ulysses S. Grant

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

Woodrow Wilson

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation

 “The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

Unknown Author

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.

Theordore Roosevelt

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” 

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” 

John Adams

“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”

 “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ”that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives

George W. Bush

“America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.”

James Madison

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

John F. Kennedy

“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.”

John Quincy Adams

“Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

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

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

Harry Truman

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

Calvin Coolidge

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”

George Washington

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

 “As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

Ronald Reagan

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”