Being Patriotic Quotes

#1. From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Leon Trotsky

#2. How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

#3. Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

George H. W. Bush

#4. The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. Love and hatred only deal with feelings; they do not understand (the) logic.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Healing in America is being able to call it our home, to build a future for our children, to still believe in tough times, to remember our forefathers, and stepping forward together towards a common solution

Phil Mitchell

#7. She's, like, really, really beautiful, but I don't think she sees that when she looks in the mirror.

Sharon M. Draper

#8. Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

Sholom Aleichem

#10. The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling the endless reverie.


-from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd

W.B.Yeats

#11. It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

#12. I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

Joni Mitchell

#13. Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

Toby Keith

#14. I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Adam Hochschild

#15. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#16. Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

Ben Mitchell

#17. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

Bill Maris

#18. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

David McMurtrie Gregg

#19. May your life shine like the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry Wriston

#21. I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

Gary Speed

#22. For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Ayn Rand

#23. As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#24. I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you..

Lisa Kleypas

#25. I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Dean Koontz

#26. The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

Malcolm Forbes

#27. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

Dan Smee