Patriotism Quotes

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the l...

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we ...

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep p...

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situ...

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, tha...

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it d...

What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more tr...

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what...

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15...

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about ...

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government...

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of se...

The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn thei...

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of Ame...

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know...

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend my...

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our countr...

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for wh...

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild.Because they are showing ...

Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild."Because they are showing...

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...

...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I ...

Patriotism,” said Theodore Roosevelt, “means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by t...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and soun...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepe...

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, i...

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion in...

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back d...

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing pat...

We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: th...

Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by you...

I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, ...

What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where th...

And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists ...

How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers an...

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's ...

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greates...

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a ...

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native ...

PatriotismBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own,...

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...

Jazz is democracy in music.

Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai mu...

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners...

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of ear...

I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as grea...

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the ...

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4...

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not...

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness f...

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a l...

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

However she redefined herself, that part of one that made for the core of the self, that part that w...

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of fa...

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words...

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a communit...

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, ...

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch ...

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bo...

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing gove...

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall to...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ...

Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their design...

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

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