Patriotism Quotes

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

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.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

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.

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.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

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.

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 is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

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

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.