Quotes About Patriotism

If some act is wrong it is simply wrong, no matter who tells you to do it or for what grand motive. It seemed to me that a true patriot and decent human being rejects doing wrong and puts the ideals on which the country is founded ahead of the directives of government bureaucrats. If the government is off the rails, you don't keep on riding the train to destruction—you certainly don't push it there on your own; you start hauling the other way as hard as you can.

Sylvie was surprised by the rabid patriotism of the women on the platform, surely war should make pacifists of all women?

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

There is no country that has the best men.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.