Quotes About Patriotism

I spent a lot of time in the national team and I love playing for my country.

I have always fought to play for great clubs and to play for the Brazilian national team.

For me, I am always hoping to play for the national team.

When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.

I don't describe myself as a nationalist, but I do love my country.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

He fought for his country, but mostly he fought for the people in his country so they had freedom to make choices. He just hoped they'd be good ones.

No,' he said. 'There is no pirating. We fly the Stars and Stripes. We call it, Old Glory. We are Americans, and we are waging war as best we can, against tyranny. But I'll keep safe. Oh, I'll keep safe. Until I can come home back for you, and take you to paradise.' *

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.