Patriotism Quotes

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...

I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it...

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and ...

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the...

I was born near Slonim. I saw my home taken over by the Germans, my sister raped by the Russians and...

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, y...

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...

I love my country, not my government.

Patriotism, whether it is of the Western kind, or of the Eastern kind, is the same, a poison in huma...

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for ...

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal...

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our natio...

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from...

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military...

Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as ...

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single count...

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stand...

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...

Patriotism, that least discerning of pas

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter wheth...

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you ha...

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, vicious...

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to ...

I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really ...

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligent...

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine...

Patriotism , as a feeling of exclusive love for one's own people, and as a doctrine of tile virtue o...

Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to ma...

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...

The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In...

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means ...

...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural th...

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God know...

The real propaganda is what—if we are genuinely a living member of a nation—we tell ourselves becaus...

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most importan...

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one ca...

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the ...

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic an...

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The c...

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at...

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a W...

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equa...

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a count...

[Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their ...

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they fe...

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

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

To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I ...

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts ...

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsifi...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, ...

I am not a Virginian but an American.

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.'