Quotes About Community

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.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

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

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.

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

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.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

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

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.