Quotes About Patriotism

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

The response that I have got over the years is the best example that the people of India love me, and I feel as much Indian as anybody.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.

I am an Indian to the core.

Every man, by consulting his own heart, may easily know whether he is or is not a patriot. But it is not so easy for the by-standers.

When I wrote "God Bless America," they said it was too corny, but it's still around.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Non-violently, peacefully, while the eyes of this country are watching these games, they take a knee to bring our attention and our focus to this problem to ensure that we fix it, that is why they are doing it. And I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, any time, anywhere, in any place.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Donald Trump talks about America first. He's made America alone.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

Don't think 'I can't write an anthem'—think 'The United States of America made it two centuries with a terrible anthem that no one can sing. I bet I can do better than that.

Ask not what your country can do for you," he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, "but what you can do for your country.

Americans despise cowards," Patton continued all those months ago, putting his own spin on U.S. history. "Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.