True Patriotism Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.

George Lakoff

#3. True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Queen Elizabeth II

#4. 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

#5. I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.

Helen Keller

#6. 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!

Robert Walpole

#7. 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.

Robert McAfee Brown

#8. 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.

Thomas Steinbeck

#9. 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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.

Stanley Baldwin

#11. True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Robert E.Lee

#12. True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

#13. True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Austin O'Malley

#14. True patriotism is doing something for your country.

Bill Maher

#15. I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.

Strive Masiyiwa

#16. True patriotism, Jack believed, would have been for his fellow Americans to look inward after 9/11 and accept a little blame, admit the attacks had happened, in part, because of who they were in the world, not in spite of it.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#17. True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#19. There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#20. During the last presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama, asked why he was not wearing a flag pin, answered that it represented "a substitute" for "true patriotism." Bad move. Months later, Obama quietly beat a retreat and began wearing the flag on his lapel. He does so still.

Charles Krauthammer

#21. True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Robert Reich

#22. I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#23. It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

George Orwell

#24. The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

William Jennings Bryan

#25. A true leader sticks up for his followers.

Auliq Ice

#26. Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Stefan Molyneux

#27. True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.

James Morris Robinson

#28. From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

Thomas Steinbeck

#29. I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

Sarah Emma Edmonds

#30. Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns

#31. True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

Rebecca Wells

#32. All true patriots will meet in heaven.

Charlotte Corday

#33. 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.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#34. And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?

Ahdaf Soueif

#35. As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#36. It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

#37. No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#38. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

#39. If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.

Max Eastman

#40. A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

Auliq Ice

#41. 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

#42. A man's true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#43. 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.