Top 100 Quotes About Patriotism
#1. But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
#2. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
#3. 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.
#4. Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.
#5. 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.
#6. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
#7. Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
#8. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
#9. 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.
#10. It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
#11. The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
#12. Patriotism is the religion of hell.
#13. He said: What is patriotism but love of the food one ate as a child?
#14. Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
#15. Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
#16. America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
#17. Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with skepticism and derision by the press because their actions and motivations failed to conform to accepted romantic and cultural ideals.
#18. Patriotism, nationalism,' she said impatiently. 'Call it what you wish. Mine the only flag, mine the only way. All else is inferior, trample it underfoot. Despise it, detest it.
#19. ...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
#20. Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?
#21. There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
#22. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
#23. Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
#24. America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
#25. 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.
#26. Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
#27. My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
#28. Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
#29. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
#30. Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
#31. Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.
#32. I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.
#33. It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
#34. Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
#35. I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.
#36. It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
#37. He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
#38. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
#39. Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
#40. Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
#41. Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
#42. I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.
#43. No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.
#44. We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.
#45. But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
#46. You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.
#47. In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.
#48. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.
#49. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
#50. Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
#51. It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.
#52. You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
#53. Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
#54. Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.
#55. Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.
#56. He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.
#57. There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
#58. No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
#59. If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
#60. The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable ... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
#61. Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?
#62. A nation without patriotism won't win any war.
#63. Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.
#64. Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
#65. Patriotism was a fool's religion, a crude social bonding device that defeated itself by inciting violence and inviting reprisal.
#66. When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
#67. I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
#68. War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.
#69. Egdar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on.
#70. It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
#71. Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
#72. These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
#73. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
#74. Stevenson told the legionnaires that patriotism "is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. . . . For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
#75. I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.
#76. Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
#77. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
#78. I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
#79. Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism.
#80. Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
#81. Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.
#82. Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.
#83. Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
#84. Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
#85. I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
#86. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.
#87. Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
#88. 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.
#89. Where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.
#90. Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
#91. My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
#92. I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.
#93. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them.
#94. In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.
#95. Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
#96. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
#97. Where is your sense of patriotism?
I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.
#98. Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
#99. We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman
#100. Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
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