Quotes About Patriotism

SGT Steven C. Ganczewski, a Ranger in editor Chuck Holton's unit, had been asked by a high-school guidance counselor why a young man with his potential would join the Army. Someone with his potential--as if selfless service, even to the point of giving one's life for a cause greater than any one of us--is somehow beneath one's potential. Thankfully, Patrick Henry and George Washington didn't feel that way in 1775.

In the words of William McKinley, Our flag has never waved over any community but in blessing.

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.

Se volete vincere la guerra, voi non potete distruggere la patria dell'operaio. Non potete distruggere le macchine, le officine, le industrie. Il problema non è soltanto polacco, è europeo. Anche in tutti gli altri paesi d'Europa, da voi occupati, potete distruggere la patria dei nobili, la patria dei borghesi, ma non la patria degli operai.

Can England die? And what if England dies?

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll .

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

There is hardly a more admirable impulse in the human soul than patriotism.

Black soldiers found themselves in a dilemma. On the one hand they were being trained to risk their lives in defense of the country, while on the other hand they were being told to accept their role as inferior citizens.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic

McCollum believed in military

At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared. We must all hang together. According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;

For 240 years, it's been a terrible mistake to bet against America.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

People who hold a classic understanding of sexuality, marriage, and family have gone in just twenty years from pillars of mainstream conviction to the media equivalent of racists and bigots. So what do we do now? Patriotism,

During the last presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama, asked why he was not wearing a flag pin, answered that it represented "a substitute" for "true patriotism." Bad move. Months later, Obama quietly beat a retreat and began wearing the flag on his lapel. He does so still.

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.