Quotes About Patriotism

I was asked to play for Italy, and I was very appreciative. I was 19, and I said, 'No, thank you.' It was very hard, but I am Argentinian, and it would have been deceit.

I'm very proud to represent Nigeria but I would like to say thank you to England for the chance they gave me, it was a difficult decision.

What I really appreciate is the people who come up and say, 'Thank you for representing our country.'

Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for.

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

We live in the greatest country in the history of mankind every single day.

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

I have a lot of responsibilities. Every move I make, on and off the court, I'm thinking about doing the right thing for my country. It's a small country, but I've said it before, we Georgians have a big heart, we all support each other in every way we can.

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

of member-states from enlisting in foreign armies.

As for nationalism, it has no right to exist except in football matches.

Amo tutti i popoli, ma nessuna nazione. Sono un patriota, non un nazionalista." "Che differenza c'è?" "Il patriottismo è amare la propria gente; il nazionalismo è odiare gli altri.

We understood nationalism to be Indian nationalism and not Hindu or Muslim or any other kind of religious or other nationalism,

Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Must there always be "wars and rumors of war"? Accepting the inevitability of war is one thing, but glorifying war in the name of God and claiming that it reflects strong character and patriotism is quite another.

am an anti-imperialist," Mark Twain told the reporters at dockside. "I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."12