Quotes About Patriotism

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing purpose, as if they were made out of some funny plastic. What did they actually refer to? It seemed that they all might refer to money...

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

México, el país que produce personas orgullosamente nacionalistas, pero educativamente mediocres.

So the Next time September 17 rolls around, eat a hot dog, watch some fireworks, and celebrate Constitution Day - that fateful date in 1787 when thirty-nine sweaty men dressed in stockings signed their names to the United States Constitution.

Anyone who disrespects the flag has never been handed a folded one.

Someone has put a huge sign across the World Financial Center reading WE WILL NEVER FORGET. It ripples gently in the wind above a thrirty-foot-wide American flag. I appreciate this sentiment, and the fact that it has been stated in twenty-foot-tall lettering. But I can't help thinking, we do forget. Ultimately, we find that it is almost always in our interest to do so, for our own benefit as a society.

Felicitaciones a los grandes héroes americanos, cuyo patriotismo está muy bien expresada en las últimas palabras de Nathan Hale, Americano luchador por la libertad: "Sólo lamento no tener más que una vida para perder por mi país." El día de los Caídos, recordamos y ofrecemos nuestro más sentido homenaje a todos los héroes Americanos y su espíritu de patriotismo! Dios bendiga a América! - Deo.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

It was in this spirit of patriotism and confidence in the continuance of such abiding good will as would for all time preclude hostile aggression, that Virginia ceded, for the use of the confederated States, all that vast extent of territory lying north of the Ohio River, out of which have since been formed five States and part of a sixth.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

It is a crime to poison the minds of the meek and the humble, to stoke the passions of reactionism and intolerance, by appealing to that odious anti-Semitism that, unchecked, will destroy the freedom-loving France of the Rights of Man. It is a crime to exploit patriotism in the service of hatred, and it is, finally, a crime to ensconce the sword as the modern god, whereas all science is toiling to achieve the coming era of truth and justice.