Top 84 Best Patriotism Quotes
#1. Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
Nathan Hale
#2. Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
George Borrow
#3. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. 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.
Robert Stam
#5. Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.
Emmylou Harris
#7. 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.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#8. Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me." He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes.
Hilary Mantel
#9. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#10. It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors.
Chris Hedges
#11. While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. 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.
George Carlin
#14. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
#15. The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism
Henri Barbusse
#16. We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
Rufus Choate
#17. After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.
Chris Hedges
#18. No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
Seneca The Younger
#19. I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
#20. 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.
Douglas MacArthur
#21. Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan
#22. Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.
Marjane Satrapi
#23. He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.
Brian Spellman
#24. All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
Grover Cleveland
#25. The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.
Leon Bourgeois
#26. Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it ...
George Bernard Shaw
#27. It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
R. Lee Ermey
#28. There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Bruce Springsteen
#29. 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'..
Peter Jennings
#31. The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#32. Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
Joe Barton
#33. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
Visar Zhiti
#34. So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.
Toby Keith
#35. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Abraham Lincoln
#36. The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
Homer
#37. It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.
George Orwell
#39. Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.
John F. Kerry
#40. They knew by instinct rather than by insight that this new expansion movement, in which "patriotism . . . is best expressed in money-making" (Huebbe-Schleiden) and the national flag is a "commercial asset" (Rhodes), could only destroy the political body of the nation-state.
Hannah Arendt
#42. Patriotism is wanting what is best for your country. Nationalism is thinking your country is best, no matter what it does.
Sydney J. Harris
#43. 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.
Ernest Belfort Bax
#44. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
#45. I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.
Scott Ritter
#47. Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country" - what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots - and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.
John Irving
#48. Patriotism is a joke in the UK.
Matt Tong
#49. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
Mick Jagger
#50. Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#51. We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
Thomas Sowell
#52. It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?
Jimmy Stewart
#53. What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
Emma Goldman
#54. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
#55. War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.
J.G. Farrell
#56. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
Chris Kyle
#57. Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
Carl Schurz
#58. My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Robert A. Heinlein
#59. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
#60. Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#61. It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
Walter Cronkite
#62. Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
John Goodlad
#63. I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCain
#64. In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
John Sergeant Wise
#65. To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
Brock Chisholm
#66. Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
Oliver Stone
#67. It was too early in the morning for family patriotism."
-Cecelia Brady
F Scott Fitzgerald
#68. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail Bakunin
#69. I am a patriot. That means I owe my loyalty to the armies I swore to lead and the citizens I swore to protect. I am loyal to the crown and what it means. Not to the fool wearing it.
Craig Schaefer
#70. Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#72. America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd
#73. Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
Bryant McGill
#74. Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
Richard Dreyfuss
#75. Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
Bill Maher
#76. patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.
William Manchester
#77. Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show
George Peppard
#78. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.
Robert Ardrey
#79. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
Bertrand Russell
#80. 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.
Sylvia Thompson
#81. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
John F. Kerry
#82. Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.
Anthony Burgess
#83. Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
Marco Rubio
#84. Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
Chrissie Hynde
