Patriotism Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Kim Jong-un, Richard Aldington, George William Curtis, Emma Goldman and many others.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
LibertГ©, Г©galitГ©, fraternitГ©.
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.
And bold and hard adventures t’ undertake,
Leaving his country for his country’s sake.
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.
And bold and hard adventures t’ undertake,
Leaving his country for his country’s sake.
To apply Kim Jong Il’s patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General’s intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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.
Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Ole times dar am not forgotten,
Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!
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Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand
To lib and die in Dixie.
Ole times dar am not forgotten,
Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!
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Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand
To lib and die in Dixie.
If one’s patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one’s country.
We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It’s an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
Old Glory represents our great American military and their sacrifices to ensure our freedom. This isn’t a political issue. This is about Patriotism, and we need more of it.
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.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
The music industry’s actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn’t it?
There’s something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
When I deployed to Iraq with my fellow soldiers, putting our lives on the line for our country, no one in the media questioned our patriotism because of our religion.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one’s country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student’s bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country–am I to be blamed?
The student’s bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country–am I to be blamed?
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
At some future time I shall see New York the artist’s ground. I think you will create an American School.
‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
All true patriots will meet in heaven.
In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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.
My love for my country is my religion.
In “The King’s Speech,” patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don’t see why people care about patriotism.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide… but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German – and to the shame of the German nation.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else – fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism – then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
No matter where people stand on the policies that led to the conflicts, Americans recognize the depth of sacrifice and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Everyone agrees these heroes deserve every advantage we can give them.
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
I pledge to put patriotism over party, and commit to the hard work of real reform over cheap political wins, quick fixes, and empty promises.
If you can’t get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
God-and your native land!
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
God-and your native land!
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can’t legally be a Christian and a patriot – except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don’t have something that I want to die for – anymore.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans… must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.
Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions … questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like … but, I implore you, do not forget to question.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It’s all a bit silly.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
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.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.’
We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
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.
Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Among oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs… and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts… the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
There is a possibility that the BJP can start the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya just before Lok Sabha elections. They can even sponsor some dramatic events in the name of patriotism to save their government and hide their failures. Be aware of such conspiracies.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.
I don’t have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.
Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
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.
The whole earth is the brave man’s country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don’t have an opinion on that and it’s important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
However British you may be, I am more British still.
I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree– It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who … as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered – the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here’s thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!
True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.
I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
For it’s home, dearie, home–it’s home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They’re all growing green in the old countrie.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They’re all growing green in the old countrie.
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 average American is nothing if not patriotic.
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.
I think patriotism, by its very definition, is love of country. But we seem to have become a country where the highest thing we’re reaching for is tolerance.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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.
To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice — and always has been.
Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.
I couldn’t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We’d] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
God doesn’t really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.
If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism – no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
I think Americans are very patriotic.
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez – writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
I don’t know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
His first best country ever is at home.
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.
Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
‘Cause we’ll put a boot in your ass
It’s the American way.
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
‘Cause we’ll put a boot in your ass
It’s the American way.
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego – ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation’s flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s?
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
Let’s give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together.
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
I think patriotism is never racism.
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.
True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. – John Adams
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. –as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
Our country … when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
The Hollywood of Frank Capra’s era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
“Every national border in Europe,” El Eswad added ironically, “marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.”
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
I think it’s the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn’t that what the very essence of democracy is about?
There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country, a reflection of God’s lover’s quarrel with all the world.
Patriotism need not be puritanical.
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
From my father’s point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That’s the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that’s me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we’re doing. It’s hugely important.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington’s qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
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.
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their ‘patriotism.’
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
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.
Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation’s ways of justice.
Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers’ rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe… and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country’s flag and honor and welfare.
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer’s patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The ‘dazzling royals’ have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
I am a loyal American, and I love my country.
I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let’s try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it’s your duty.
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Americans never quit.
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I’m a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back – as far back as the 13th century.
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man’s nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don’t like it.
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
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.
Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn’t mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people’s rights and their sense of patriotism.
My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
‘Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one’s country-I’m a Roman for that.
It’s not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I’ve certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity – definitely a thicker understanding.
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
It used to upset me – now it makes me sad – to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
I think Americans are really patriotic people, so patriotism is something they can understand. I’m very patriotic about Brazil, my country, and that includes my language.
We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn’t to do with nationality. It’s a stronger feeling.
A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.
Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people’s throats.
If I have to lay an egg for my country, I’ll do it.
The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.
Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one’s own.
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
Laughter is America’s most important export.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.
Patriotism is a menace to liberty.
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
No one is patriotic about taxes.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature – liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
Patriotism is a feeling that grows as you become conscious of your surroundings.
It is not the reporter’s job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party’s line of nation building.
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one’s own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
My position is that it isn’t government’s job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
Let’s get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
These are the times that try men’s souls.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.
If one harbours anywhere in one’s mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
My country, right or wrong, but still my country.
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother’s feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
This is essentially a people’s contest… whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men – to lift artificial weights from all shoulders – to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all – to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.
I don’t think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
I don’t like the showy nationalism – a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag – that doesn’t matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I wake up every morning singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.
If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.’
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.
Conservatives believe in patriotism, but equally in community and the importance of local identity. We believe in devolution. We believe in localism. We believe that decisions should be taken locally wherever is practical; that communities matter.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics – that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.
A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
… any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything … that smacks of discrimination or slander.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia… a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary… is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all.
Our country is the common parent of all.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era – patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
We all want to do everything we can to help our veterans; it is a part of our American values and sense of patriotism.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.
Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.
I do love My country’s good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife’s estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.
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.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They’ll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
I am so 100 percent Swedish… Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup – nothing and nothing and then all at once – splat. I think I’m a little like that.
You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation… In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.
My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
Undeniable though it is that many Indian Muslims misguidedly consider Pakistan their haven, the immeasurably greater number who take intense pride in being Indian and who connect deeply with the country are hurt and angered at our patriotism being under scrutiny.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
…majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it’s all about what’s good for the party and not necessarily what’s good for the country.
Patriots don’t let their nation default.
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
[Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
[Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]
For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Every year in late June, Custer’s Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 – the year I witnessed it – the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington–pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc–romantic, devoted, marvelous.
Patriotism ruins history.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline… And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier’s heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
It’s tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn’t matter how incredible your work is, if you’re an unknown person and you’re from Toronto, people’s eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
I’ve been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
What constitutes American painting?… things may be in America, but it’s what is in the artist that counts. What do we call ‘American’ outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change.
Here’s how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes ‘growth’ above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don’t know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I’ve got to call your bluff on that.
“I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world.”
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
You are patriotic when you condemn and fight for fellow citizens. That is patriotism for me.
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one’s duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
For Americans, of course, it’s football, basketball, and baseball. We live for it. In many ways, it sums up who we are. In Iran, it’s all about wrestling. The patriotism toward their country comes out in the way they wrestle, so it makes sense why they’re the best.
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the person who tells you the truth. That’s who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il was an outstanding leader who, true to the President’s great idea, developed Chongryon into a pacesetter of patriotism, into a model of patriotic loyalty to the motherland, and into a prototype body of overseas compatriots.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
