Quotes About Patriotism

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

The English season will be over; I'm a Brazilian who loves my country, so of course I will be following and supporting the side as much as any fan.

I said, even when I was left out, 'I am an England fan, and I'll be supporting the boys.' It's in my blood; it's too hard not to.

Being English, being born in England, this is our home and we should be supporting our home country.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

Skiing not only for yourself and your family, but for your country, was surreal. The amount of support I got from back home in Indiana was insane.

Being American means you never have to say you surrender.

We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism.

Hou hou, la salope, qu'ils criaient, oh le vilain dégonflé, le foireux lardé, la porcine lope, le pétochard affreux, le patriote mauvais, le marcassin maudit, la teigne vilaine, le pleutre éhonté, le poplican félon, la mauviette pouilleuse, le crassou poltron, l'ord couard, le traître pleutre qui veut laisser le tombeau de sire Jésus aux mains des païens et qui répond mal à son roi. Vive Louis de Poissy! Hou hou, la salope.

True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

Vincet amor patriae. (Vergil Aen. 6.823.)

Prophta in su patri honrem nn habet.

Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

Blind faith can justify anything.* If a man believes in a different god, or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god, blind faith can decree that he should die—on the cross, at the stake, skewered on a Crusader's sword, shot in a Beirut street, or blown up in a bar in Belfast. Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves. This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.

All the Founding Fathers, whatever their private religious beliefs, would have been aghast to read the journalist Robert Sherman's report of George Bush Senior's answer when Sherman asked him whether he recognized the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists: 'No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

People despised conscientious objectors, even those of the enemy country, because patriotism was held to be an absolute virtue. It is hard to get much more absolute than the 'My country right or wrong' of the professional soldier, for the slogan commits you to kill whomever the politicians of some future date might choose to call enemies.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

In other words, in order to believe in what we think our nation stands for, we must constantly, every day, in small acts or thoughts and large, deceive ourselves

People still dreamed of going on Crusade and liberating Jerusalem, but in an important development, holy warfare was beginning to merge with the patriotism of national war.