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Quotes About Patriotism

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
~ Merle Haggard
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
~ Cecil Rhodes
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.
~ William Shakespeare
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
~ Mark Twain
The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
~ Omar N. Bradley
England expects that every man will do his duty.
~ Horatio Nelson
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
~ Craig Washington
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.
~ Andrew Johnson
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
~ Homer
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
~ David Lloyd George
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
~ Margaret Thatcher
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
~ Edward Everett
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
~ Rebecca West
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
~ Chester A. Arthur
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
~ Henry Steele Commager
[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?
~ Mike Pence
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
~ Aristophanes
No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
~ Christina Stead
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
~ James Larkin
I am a man who loves my country, the United States.
~ Donald Trump
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
~ Ronald Reagan