Patriotism Quotes
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
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.
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
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 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.
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!
Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.
I know the prettiest word in the world is ‘money.’ But I believe that words like ‘loyalty’ and ‘patriotism’ are very beautiful as well.
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
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.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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.
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.
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
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.