Quotes About Patriotism

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.