Quotes About Patriotism

Well, yeah, Dovey said. That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.

What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In

The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to 'loving and faithfully serving his country,' at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms," Schurz

Imbued as he was with the idea that only whites could rule the islands efficiently, he was able to consider this a form of patriotism.

Americans have always been idealists. They want their country to act for pure motives

I have always been a patriot, Brandt. In order to be a truly effective soldier, one must believe in one's country, is that not so?

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory."4 Even John F. Kennedy's less gruesome "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" makes the tension clear.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

For love of country, they accepted death.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.