Patriotism Quotes

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

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who...

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you th...

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents...

New Rule: America must stop bragging it's the greatest country on earth, and start acting like it. I...

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and ...

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have ever...

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presi...

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaed...

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they thro...

Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the ...

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the reli...

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or n...

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for o...

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of ou...

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only beca...

The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation...

Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses t...

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an Am...

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How goo...

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patrio...

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really har...

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assum...

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and f...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,...

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants t...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were ...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American be...

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themsel...

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since i...

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way th...

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within t...

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing t...

It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them...

It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of the...

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most fla...

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to...

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an ...

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principl...

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is t...

Patriotism is not defined by loyalty to a particular elected official or political party. Indeed, ex...

I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more lik...

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which...

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ...

The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we ...

...patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war an...

There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that i...

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common wel...

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether sh...

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and conveni...

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooli...

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic...

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on ...

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we ar...

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags...

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who wo...

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the se...

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism ...

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is...

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvi...