Patriotism Quotes

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

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

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

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

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

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

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.

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.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

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.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

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

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

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

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Patriotism corrupts history.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

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 as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

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