Quotes About Patriotism

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance. Accordingly, it presents an almost overwhelming temptation – how can I not be excused the occasional mockery? Alas, the Patriotists lacked flexibility in such matters – the deadliest weapon against them was derisive laughter, and they knew it.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

My dad was in the FBI when Hoover ordered the roundup of Asian Americans. He hated it and quit, joined the navy, and spent the next three years fighting in the South Pacific. Like so many, he didn't talk a lot about the war. But when it came to leaving the FBI, he told me once, "You can always say no.

Give me blood and I will give you freedom

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.

No one will be allowed to misuse our soil.

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

My dad always wanted to be a soldier, but he couldn't be one. When I told him that I would be playing a soldier in J.P. Dutta's film 'Paltan,' he was very excited.

I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.

From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.

In 'LoC,' I was returning to a war film after 'Border,' and I had to put myself into the hearts and minds of our soldiers.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.