Quotes About Patriotism

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before!

the Mohaves were highly nationalistic, their sense of patriotism had always been more a mental than a territorial construct—one that would soon be tested.

Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere. . . . Granting the perils of the world, it is potentially a very costly indulgence to fear indiscriminately, and to try to stimulate fear in others, just for the excitement of it, or because to do so channels anxiety or loneliness or prejudice or resentment into an emotion that can seem to those who indulge it like shrewdness or courage or patriotism.

Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.

Servir, servir, servir Al Ejército de la Nación Servir, servir, servir Con mucha dedicación

patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.

Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith.

El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas

Son cosas irreconciliables, Alice. No se engañe: el patriotismo es una religión, está reñido con la lucidez. Es puro oscurantismo, un acto de fe».

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril