Quotes About Patriotism

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

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.

Let my country die for me.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.