Quotes About Patriotism

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry.

Mohabbat goliyon se bo rahe ho Watan ka chehra khoon se dho rahe ho Gumaan tum ko ke rasta katt raha hai Yaqeen mujhko ke manzil kho rahe ho

Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it, military or otherwise.

Samuel Adams was the kind of man you like to believe exists and rarely meet.

An attacking robot follows its program, acting in accordance with focalization and optimization algorithms, differential diagnostics, and game theory—not patriotism. Military mathematics and weapons automation

America has faced hardships in the past but we have always mounted a comeback! We defeated the Nazis, we defeated the Native Americans, we defeated the environment, we even defeated the Metric System! Kilos? Sorry, that's drug talk. This is America! Where we eat fruit by the foot, not muesli by the meter.

I am reminded of the words of that great American patriot Thomas Paine: 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

No wrong will ever be done you by our nation."3

The men of Easy Company lined the rails to see the Statue of Liberty slip astern. For nearly every one of them, it was his first trip outside the United States. A certain homesickness set in, coupled with a realization, as the regimental scrapbook Currahee put it, of "how wonderful the last year had been.

They knew they were going into great danger. They knew they would be doing more than their part. They resented having to sacrifice years of their youth to a war they never made. They wanted to throw baseballs, not grenades, shoot a .22 rifle, not an M-1. But having been caught up in the war, they decided to be as positive as possible in their Army careers.

May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.

Stephen E. Ambrose

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.