Top 61 Country Patriotic Quotes
#1. Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
Francis Ford Coppola
#2. I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
Andy Serkis
#3. There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
Bill Kristol
#4. The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
Woodrow Wilson
#5. The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.
Jose Rizal
#6. Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
#7. 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
#8. Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things ... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
Payne Stewart
#9. Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#10. If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?
George S. Patton
#11. I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
Cary Fukunaga
#12. The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
Charles Bukowski
#13. You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.
Sarah Benson
#14. I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher
#15. In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Ashton Holmes
#16. When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
Andrew Johnson
#17. Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government
Craig Pittman
#19. Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism." Griezman
Lee Child
#20. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
Oliver Goldsmith
#21. And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.
Taylor Branch
#22. What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#23. My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.
George W. Bush
#24. It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.
William J. Clinton
#27. Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.
John McCain
#28. I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
Michael Moore
#29. It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
J. Horace McFarland
#30. Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.
Dick Mountjoy
#31. World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.
Ruth Reichl
#32. The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
Wael Ghonim
#33. Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
Carl Schurz
#34. It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!
David Beckham
#35. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
#36. I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.
David Beckham
#37. You are so patriotic to your heart. It keeps the country together. But it tears the world apart.
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#38. Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
William J.H. Boetcker
#39. I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder rolls, and the lightenings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.
Josiah Quincy
#40. I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you
the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
Andy Rooney
#41. Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
John Wayne
#42. Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Seneca The Younger
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
Henry Rollins
#46. Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#47. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
Jimmy Carter
#48. Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.
Daniel Ellsberg
#49. Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me
Jerry Seinfeld
#50. My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
Frederick Reines
#51. America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover
#52. A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.
Auliq Ice
#53. For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.
Daniel Ellsberg
#54. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
Baha'u'llah
#55. 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. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
#56. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
#57. If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
Phil McGraw
#59. Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.
Jason Calacanis
#61. I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)
Sue Monk Kidd
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