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Quotes About Patriotic

We are patriotic enough to believe there is no good reason why foreign investors from Europe cannot be expected to resolve any disputes fairly through British justice, operating through British courts. And we are European enough to think that our companies can do the same by relying on European courts.
~ Barry Gardiner
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.
~ Doc Hastings
There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
~ George McGovern
America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
Congress designated December 18 "for solemn thanksgiving and praise," and on that day all across America bonfires blazed, bells pealed, and in the streets and on village greens the people sang patriotic songs.
~ Benson Bobrick
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
~ bierce ambrose vi
There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
~ Bill Kristol
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?
~ Bill Maher
For me, I relish playing tournaments in America.
~ John Isner
America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
~ Nathanael Greene
In 1957, General Douglas MacArthur said, "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fever—with the cry of a grave national emergency … Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
~ Sherrod Brown
The nation's patriotic juices were stirred and the new music halls chanted, 'We don't want to fight but by jingo if we do, / We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.' Such sentiments became known as jingoism.
~ Simon Jenkins
I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.
~ Steve King
but Republicans have decided there is a direct correlation between the size of a patriotic heart and the size of the defense budget.
~ Stuart Stevens
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)
~ Sue Monk Kidd
How lovely. The old lady sighed. An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a job, which made the situation more challenging. Oh, I worked on an assembly line during World War II, but there weren't very many men around and as my husband was off serving his country, an office romance would have been unpatriotic, don't you think?--Mrs. Ford
~ Susan Mallery
This is the greatest country under the sun. But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty, cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice.
~ Madam C. J. Walker
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~ Elihu Root
I've been a Rusev Day fan since before there was a Rusev Day. I feel like I was the forerunner of it all. I saw something in him before the WWE universe saw it in him, back when they were booing us for being patriotic to our countries.
~ Lana
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family, work, self-determination and religion comprised his core values.
~ Jason Whitlock
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
~ James Madison
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
~ H. L. Mencken
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi