Quotes About Patriotism

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

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

John Bull; or, The Englishman's Fireside

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Education has been assigned a large and, it seems, ever expanding role in maintaining social equilibrium by buttressing self-control. And in fertilizing the soil of patriotism, which presupposes a purpose beyond, a purpose sometimes higher than, that of the individual. So, patriotism involves transcending, or circumscribing, the value of individual autonomy.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.—Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians! - John A. MacDonald, First Prime Minister of Canada

Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians!

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the boys are marching,Cheer up, comrades, they will come,And beneath the starry flagWe shall breathe the air againOf the free land in our own beloved home.

Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again,Shouting the battle cry of Freedom.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic? Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.

You mean you're going to risk your life on something that isn't your business? Gorov smiled thinly. Ponyets said, You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic? Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.

In 'Purab Aur Paschim,' there's one of the nicer patriotic scenes which is patriotic without going jingoistic. There's a scene set in a rotating restaurant, where Pran, who has left India, is completely running India down and Manoj Kumar is taking up for India. And there's that song 'Jab Zero Diya.'

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

From the Green Mountain boys who joined the fight for independence; to a war that saved the Union, and two wars that would encircle the world; to Korea and Vietnam and the Middle East, and our F-16s defending the skies above Ground Zero on September 11, 2001; Vermonters have always answered our nation's call.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

America is a willingness of the heart.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.