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Quotes About Patriotism

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.
~ Manuel L. Quezon
But everyone knows you need fireworks to make independence official.
~ John Scalzi
As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them.
~ John Steinbeck
Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.
~ John Steinbeck
A WAR COMES ALWAYS to someone else. In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. Every American was a rifleman by birth, and one American was worth ten or twenty foreigners in a fight.
~ John Steinbeck
Mac, who in hell are these vigilantes, anyway? What kind of guys are they?" "Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution. But they're just the old nigger torturers working.
~ John Steinbeck
Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people, " to the exclusion of other human beings.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!
~ Stan Smith
All you need to know about Donald Trump is he loves his family and he loves this country. And he's going to be a great president of the United States.
~ Mike Pence
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
~ Ulysses S. Grant
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
~ Barack Obama
Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
~ Ted Cruz
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
~ Jim Lehrer
Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
~ John Goodman
You are part of our Great British family.
~ Boris Johnson
I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family.
~ Donald Trump
I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country.
~ Donald Trump
I grew up in a Navy family.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.
~ Ted Nugent
Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Tom Cotton
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
~ Ted Cruz
I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.
~ Wojciech Jaruzelski
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
~ Clara Barton
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
~ Rabindranath Tagore