Quotes About Patriotism

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL WEALTH

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

He did the right thing,' the count replied. 'He has a noble heart. He realized that every man owes some debt to his country: some give their talents, others their hard work; some watch, others bleed. Had he stayed

Io sono uno di quelli che gli uomini chiamano proscritti, banditi, briganti, e sia! Ma se porto via denaro al ricco, non tolgo mai nulla al povero. Odio la violenza, cerco di non versare sangue, amo la patria mia: solo la gente normanna mi è odiosa perché è gente tiranna».

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.

One's love for despotism is in exact proportion to one's contempt for one's country.

I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and it is a virtue which may be found among the people, but never among the leaders of the people.

No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.

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Laws cannot succeed in rekindling the ardor of an extinguished faith, but men may be interested in the fate of their country by the laws. By this influence the vague impulse of patriotism, which never abandons the human heart, may be directed and revived; and if it be connected with the thoughts, the passions, and the daily habits of life, it may be consolidated into a durable and rational sentiment.

I'm not sorry (America)

Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part.

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

One must keep a close eye on the current definitions. To be unpatriotic would be terrible. To be patriotic in the wrong way could be fatal.