Quotes About Patriotism

Over there are some Civil War veterans. Iron flags on their graves... New Hampshire boys... had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they'd never seen more than fifty miles of it themselves.

There's a new dawn in America! It isn't enough just to disagree with your opponent anymore. True patriots hate their fucking guts!

Things sure have changed. FDR tried to calm us: "Nothing to fear but fear itself." Now politicians encourage the jitters. Panic is the new patriotism. "Today's Threat Level: Duck!

That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

My objective is always to play for the national team. For me, it's the best feeling in the world to represent my country.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

Most statesmen who become successful leaders of a country at war have usually risen to such eminence already. They have installed in themselves an ability not to suffer sleepless nights because of casualties on the other side. They now possess the mightiest of all social engines of psychic numbification—patriotism!

Even now she was very patriotic, and like most patriots she felt strongly and thought weakly, and so it was not easy to argue with her.

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.