Patriotism Quotes

Patriotism Quote of the day

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

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

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

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

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

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong, " and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

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

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.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

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

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

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

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

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

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

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

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

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

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.'

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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

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

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

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

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

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

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

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

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

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

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.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

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

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

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.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

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