Quotes About Patriotism

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

There is a possibility that the BJP can start the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya just before Lok Sabha elections. They can even sponsor some dramatic events in the name of patriotism to save their government and hide their failures. Be aware of such conspiracies.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Our Country—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less—still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Krulak knew he would pay a price, and he still did the right thing. At a time when he had everything to lose, he was the only general in the American military whose sense of duty and love of country were greater than his careerism.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Let no man write my epitaph…. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

The tenement house is the enemy of modesty, the enemy of virtue, the enemy of patriotism. Home is where the virtues grow. I would like to see the law so that every home, to a small amount, should be free not only from sale for debts, but should be absolutely free from taxation, so that every man could have a home. Then we will have a nation of patriots.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Every great artist is a man who has freed himself . . . Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a "universal" without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call, Drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America's the greatest land of all. [ Quoting The Dinah Shore Chevy Show theme song, c. 1952, in an epigraph to Chapter 11: See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above. ]

America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

But I should think our patriotism was warped and stunted indeed if it did not embrace the Greater Britain beyond the seas—the young and vigorous nations carrying everywhere a knowledge of the English tongue and English love of liberty and law. With these feelings, I refuse to speak or think of the United States as a foreign nation. They are our flesh and blood.… Our past is theirs. Their future is ours.…

if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs.

Keep on saying that only the stupid are fit to sacrifice, that America must be defended by the low-brow and enjoyed by the high-brow.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

I never felt myself an expatriate or anything but an American, but not through some excess of patriotism. My country is much too polyglot of race, type, and variety of faith, political and otherwise, for me to discover exactly to which qualities one would have to remain loyal in order to be a hundred per cent American.

The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success. They chose to die instead of surrendering.

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring.