Quotes About Patriotism

The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

This land is your land, this land is my land,From California to the New York island,From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,This land was made for you and me.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

The nation and the state depend on each other.

Unfortunately, some have used history curricula for the sole purpose of promoting national identity and patriotism, without any devotion to the proper study of history.

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Otherwise, everything I'd ever felt about this great country was a crock of shit.

Then he defined patriotism: "The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious . . . garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

be included among those Americans the modern theologian Donald W. Shriver Jr. has called "honest patriots," those who manifest an ironic-tragic love of country by learning, narrating, and working through its past of contradiction and evil, and not by evading it.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans ' and smile.

While patriotism often gets triggered by something negative—you get patriotic when your group is under threat—emulation works the opposite way. We find it hard to see emulation as an emotion; the ancients were much bigger on imitation than we were.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Tutto ciò che è nel tempo passerà con il tempo e nulla di ciò che appartiene a questo mondo transitorio e fragile merita più di un rispetto un po' distaccato e di un assenso ironico. Si può benissimo morire per la propria patria, per le proprie idee, per quelli che si amano. Non c'è niente di più onorevole. Ma soltanto ciò che è eterno merita un affetto senza riserve.