Quotes About Patriotism

Spelling is local, or rather national.

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

All domestic pleasures and enjoyments are absorbed in the great and important duty you owe your country.

Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. . . . Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.

A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

We live as Ethiopians and die as Ethiopia.

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

German youth, do not forget that you are a German," and "Remember, little girl, that one day you must be a German mother.

You are nothing, your Volk is everything.

First, I became a nationalist.

And all of us pledge ourselves to the one ancient principle: it is of no importance if we ourselves live - as long as our Volk lives, as long as Germany lives! This is essential.

El problema de la nacionalizacion de un pueblo consiste en crear sanas condiciones sociales como base de la educacion individual, solo aquel que haya aprendido en el hogar y escuela, aprecia la grandeza cultural, economica y politica de su propia patria, sentira el intimo orgullo de ser subdito de esa nacion, solo se puede luchar por aquello que se quiere, se quiere lo que se respeta y se respata unicamente lo que por lo menos se conoce.

Germany awake

Fatherland or colony.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.