Quotes About Patriotism

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But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

No, those few men and women who went against the establishment from time to time, only when necessary, were what ultimately made America great.

Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do.

I like American history.

As ideas of American identity continue to evolve, so America First must continually produce new enemies against which to define its own supposed pure vision of America.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.

"Our country, right or wrong." When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.

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

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

National identity is a con. It's good for overcoming local interests for the common good, but it is short-sighted and counterproductive when it promotes the interests of a totally artificial group – 'our nation' – above a more ample sense of what the common good consists of.

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

His grave a nation's heart shall be, His monument a people free!

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God. I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.

The Yanks are coming,The drums rum-tumming everywhere.

You're the emblem of The land I love. The home of the free and the brave.