Patriotism Quotes
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"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
"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."(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)"
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."
"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]"
"Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed."
"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."
"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."
"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars."
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain."
"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."
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."
"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy."
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy."
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
"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."
"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?"
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
"The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
"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."
"I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel."
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."
"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
"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!"
"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."
"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person."
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill."
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