Quotes About Patriotism

But many southern whites were not under the racist hold of the Democrats. As they became more prosperous, these whites came to see the GOP reflect their beliefs in economic opportunity and upward mobility. They also found Republicans more in tune with their patriotism as well as their socially conservative views. Quite naturally, they moved over to a party that better reflected their interests and aspirations.

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some of them are lies.

The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties.

Make America great again.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

What made a country? Borders, language, and culture. The Americans were doing away with all three. It would lead to their downfall,

The shortest national anthem in the world is the Japanese one, which only consists of four lines. The Greek anthem on the other hand features an incredible 158 verses.

Douglass went on forcefully for an hour. "We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it." The crowd roared its approval.

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

For love of country they accepted death.

Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.

Our faith often grows stronger when we have to defend our beliefs, the same way that patriotism flowers and blooms when our country is threatened.

After opening his concert with the American national anthem, Rubinstein stood up and told the audience that he did not see the flag of his own country among the dozens displayed in the Opera House. His next selection, he announced, would therefore be the Polish national anthem. As he played the stirring notes of "Poland Has Not Yet Perished as Long as We Live," the audience burst out in loud, sustained applause.

When Marie-Madeleine Fourcade died on July 20, 1989, at the age of seventy-nine, she became the first woman to be given a funeral at Les Invalides, a splendid complex of buildings in Paris that celebrates

The connection formed by a threat to one's county is the strongest connection of all. People adopt one another, march together. Only capture or death can tear them apart.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

My friend, any way that they can make Americans hate Americans helps the cause. They would like to make Rockwell stronger too. That is the heart of contemporary propaganda, amigo, to strengthen ignorant terrible men who believe themselves to be perfect patriots.

That is the heart of contemporary propaganda, amigo, to strengthen ignorant terrible men who believe themselves to be perfect patriots.