Quotes About Patriotism

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

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

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.