Quotes About Patriotism

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

Love for one's country is part of faith.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry "God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

Guided by anger, prejudice, or patriotism, boxing's rulers decided that Muhammad Ali was unfit to wear the sport's crown because he was a Muslim who refused to fight for his country.

Turiel's account of moral development differed in many ways from Kohlberg's, but the political implications were similar: morality is about treating individuals well. It's about harm and fairness (not loyalty, respect, duty, piety, patriotism, or tradition).

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Like his fellow inmates, Churchill was driven by an "earnest desire to do something, however small, for the British cause," with one important difference: "Of course, I am a man of peace. I do not fight. But swords are not the only weapons in the world. Something may be done with a pen.

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.

They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War, then a few monolithic sculptures representing Ideal Virtues (Patriotism, Respect for Authority, the Dutiful Wife).