Quotes About Patriotism

The British people do not, as is sometimes thought, go to war for calculation, but for sentiment

In 1933 the students of the Oxford Union, under the inspiration of a Mr. Joad, passed their ever-shameful resolution, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

lines from Byron's Childe Harold: Here, where the sword United Nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day! And this is much—and all—which will not pass away.

The Home Guard overtopped the million mark, and when rifles were lacking grasped lustily the shotgun, the sporting rifle, the private pistol, or, when there was no firearm, the pike and the club. No Fifth Column existed in Britain, though a few spies were carefully rounded up and examined. What few Communists there were lay low. Everyone else gave all they had to give.

the French Canadians… derived greater pleasure from singing "God Save the King" than from singing "Rule Britannia.

Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari jiwa. Semua inilah makananku. Aku sendiri hidup dalam kekurangan, tapi apa salahnya? Bekerja sama dengan partaiku dan rakyatku menuju kemerdekaan, untuk semua itulah aku hidup.

Kesalahannya hanyalah karena ia terlalu mencintai. Ia mencintai negerinya dan ia mencintai pemimpinnya.

Aku mengerti bagaimana kecintaanmu kepada tanah air. Aku menghargai semangatmu itu. Tapi hanya itu yang kaoian miliki. Kalian juga perlu taktik yang bijaksana dan otak yang dingin.

Seseorang tidak akan secara sukarela mempertahankan negerinya, kecuali jika dia seorang patriot yang penuh semangat. Perasaan kebencian terhadap sekutu yang anda akan tanamkan harus diperkuatvdengan perasaan cinta kepada tanah air yang sifatnya positif sebagaimana yang kuajarkan. Seseorang yang akan memimpin pasukannya dalam medan pertempuran harus memiliki sesuatu untuk apa dia berjuang.

Nah, ketahuilah mengenai hal ini. Aku akan melakukan kerjasama sekalipun dengan setan yang terkutuk, jika hal itu membantu kemerdekaan negeriku.

Kekayaan Indonesia selama ratusan tahun dirampok oleh perusahaan asing, tak ada dari keuntungan itu ditanamkan lagi di bumi Indonesia. Berbeda dengan seorang patriot yang mencintai tanah tumpah darahnya, bangsa yang menjajah kami tidak memelihara tanah jajahan itu. Mereka menghancurkannya. Kami tidak terlibat dalam hal ini, tetapi kami menjadi pewaris-pewarisnya.

Rakyat kami tidak takut mati. Lebih baik mati untuk kemerdekaan daripada hidup dalam kematian.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

Naturally the common people don't want war . . . Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. —Hermann Goering

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

If we are one world then the only patriotism can be for the world.

The flower imperishable of this valiant age, - A true American!

Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one's land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one's government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.

It is the belief in duty that captures her spirit best. Yet it is not duty in an arid or formal sense; she enjoyed life, lived it and loved it to the full. 'She loved her country and in turn it loved her.' The

Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.