Quotes About Patriotism

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter's flaming wings

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.