Patriotism Quotations

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

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

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

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.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

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.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

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.

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

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.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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!

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

The plan worked out much better than I anticipated, ... I tapped the mother lode of patriotism with that e-mail.

She has called your mothers, your aunts, your grandmothers, your daughters, your sons and husbands terrorists. This has to stop. It is the worst kind of McCarthyism. You cannot speak out in this country any more without being called a traitor. The highest form of patriotism is to speak out against policies that do not benefit the citizens of your country. This must stop. She owes an apology, if not a resignation.

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''