Quotes About Patriotism

Whenever you put on the Canadian jersey, it's an honor and it would be a huge honor to represent us at the Olympics.

I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

There is no concept of a Tamil nation. India is one nation, and Tamil Nadu is a part of that.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Only Americans can hurt America.

There is only one thing that matters to me: the France team.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition.

Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British soil. An ever-growing feeling of annoyance had begun to lay hold of the nation.

Cuando estamos lejos de la patria nunca la recordamos en sus inviernos. La distancia borra las penas del invierno, las poblaciones desamparadas, los niños descalzos en el frío. El arte del recuerdo sólo nos trae campiñas verdes, flores amarillas y rojas, el cielo azulado del himno nacional.

Le raffinement culinaire était l'orgueil suprême des trois soeurs ; la table représentait pour elles la conservation d'un héritage sacré, d'une culture aux terres de laquelle elles ne reviendraient plus, écartées de leur patrie par le temps et par des mers immenses. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

I had him in my cab once. Who? Neville asked Rupert Brooke. He was good, him. There's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England. That would be the bit with my nose under it; just fucking drive, will you?

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.