Top 100 Patriotism Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Patriotism is a joke in the UK.
Matt Tong
#7. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn
#8. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
Bertrand Russell
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan
#19. 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
#20. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#21. 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
#22. Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Ambrose Bierce
#23. True patriotism is doing something for your country.
Bill Maher
#24. The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Taylor Branch
#26. Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Herman Melville
#27. Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
Adam Carolla
#28. A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
Pierre Berton
#29. Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.
Bryant McGill
#31. [Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#32. I think patriotism is like charity
it begins at home.
Henry James
#33. The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.
William McKinley
#34. I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.
Tracy Letts
#35. Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
#36. Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease - that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#37. The land is always there...it is you who has to return
Munia Khan
#39. The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
#40. But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
Ron Paul
#41. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#42. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura
#43. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.
Elton Trueblood
#44. If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Tommy Lee Jones
#45. To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.
Joseph M. Kyrillos
#46. If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
Paul Monroe
#47. The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
George S. Patton Jr.
#48. To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy
#49. The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo
#50. Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.
Jonas Carpignano
#51. What constitutes American painting? ... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change ...
Arthur Dove
#52. Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.
Jeff Denham
#53. Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
Louis D. Brandeis
#54. The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George ... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Ron Paul
#55. For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India ... My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. How anyone could doubt the patriotism of my dachshunds is just shocking,
Helen Simonson
#57. Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
Jesse Ventura
#58. Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Michael Ignatieff
#59. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao-Tzu
#60. I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
Ted Cruz
#61. Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.
Julius Sterling Morton
#64. Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
Walter Scott
#65. Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.
Daniel Tosh
#66. Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
George Orwell
#67. I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
George Clooney
#68. To criticize one's country is to do it a service ... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.
J. William Fulbright
#70. The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
Anton Chekhov
#71. Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.
Jesse Ventura
#72. I am so 100 percent Swedish ... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.
Ingmar Bergman
#73. The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
Lincoln Steffens
#74. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#75. Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
Veerappa Moily
#76. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
Jacque Fresco
#77. Dear sirs,
The cold war isn't over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.
Sincerely,
Patriot
Benson Bruno
#78. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
William Blum
#79. Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Steve Allen
#80. 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 ...
James Madison
#81. The disease of intolerance is not communicated only in religious groups. I've seen it infect racial groups, economic groups and even whole nations (where it is often cleverly disguised as patriotism). Intolerance always fences people out. It creates one group we call US. And the rest we call THEM.
Steve Goodier
#82. There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
Frederick Douglass
#83. 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
#84. Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
Alexander Hamilton
#86. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.
Ron Paul
#87. When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
Isaac Asimov
#88. It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
Thomas Jefferson
#89. "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."
Robert Anton Wilson
#90. The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'
Leo Tolstoy
#92. Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Robert A. Heinlein
#93. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle.
#94. The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
H.G.Wells
#95. Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.
Dick Couch
#96. Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
Mark Twain
#97. Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.
Emily Levine
#98. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#99. Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#100. True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Abraham Lincoln
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