Quotes About Patriotism

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Bill's father would have remembered the Civil War, and his great-great-grandfather actually fought in the American Revolution.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Quoique sans patrie et sans roi, Et très brave ne l'étant guere, J'ai voulu mourir à la guerre. La mort n'a pas voulu de moi.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

We [the military personnel here] serve the flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death. It is for that purpose that the American people maintain us. Any one of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats and a trespasser of the bunk in which he lies down to sleep.

His mind was on patriotism not being enough, politics not being enough, producing, consuming, all amounting to little in the climate of endless violence.

The language of patriarchy is always a noble or macho language of patriotism and freedom. Men (and their female echoes) are always speaking it, but the amazing thing is that anyone is still willing to believe it. But fortunately the poor, the oppressed and marginalized, and especially women are beginning to trust their natural and truly religious instincts.

he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george.

Other men may thrill to the sight of Old Glory rippling in the breeze, but for me the library was a better symbol of what I had taken up arms to defend.

The name of the exhibit that my body is in, here with good ol' Sergeant Stubby, is The Price of Freedom. When they point from the other side of the glass, Freedom isn't free, I hear the patriots say. Blah, blah, blah. They're right, but not for the reasons they think they are. The Great War cost me a lot, and although it's not a competition, on this, the eve of my centenary, I can honestly conclude that it cost Whit more.

Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?

Fascism is on the march," Lloyd began. "And it is dangerously attractive. It gives false hope to the unemployed. It wears a spurious patriotism, as the Fascists themselves wear imitation military uniforms.

They carried Union Jack flags. Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Why was it, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

There were certain things one had to do before one could really call oneself a man, and fighting for king and country was among them. They

Somehow—and Jasper could not figure out how this trick had been worked—people who challenged the president and caught him out cheating and lying were no longer heroes, as they had been in the seventies, but instead were considered disloyal and even anti-American.

A la gente no le gustan los políticos que minan la moral de nuestros soldados cuestionando la guerra.

Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.