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Quotes About Patriotism

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.
~ Rufus Choate
If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is forever England.
~ Rupert Brooke
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.
~ Rupert Hughes
Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too.
~ Rush Hour
It's never time to panic, folks. It's never, ever gonna be time to give up on our country. It will never be time to give up on the United States. It will never be time to give up on yourselves.
~ Rush Limbaugh
In the first days of mobilization there was of course a lot of enthusiasm," recalled Robert Poustis, who was a French student at the time.
~ Russell Freedman
About Patriotism: Just because you vote, just because you have a flag on your truck, car, go kart, whatever, just because you posses political paraphernalia, just because you go to political rallies, just because you donate to charities, just because you are politically active doesn't mean your patriotic, it doesn't mean your a good person, it doesn't mean your a good citizen. Having just behavior is what makes you a good person, a good citizen, and a patriot.
~ Ryan Pack
Dying in a war for America is like skydiving without a parachute, it's fucking foolish.
~ Ryan Pack
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Talpra magyar, hí a haza! Itt az id?, most vagy soha! Rabok legyünk vagy szabadok? Ez a kérdés, válasszatok! – A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk!
~ Sándor Pet?fi
I came here to tell the truth - and if the truth condemns America, then she stands condemned!
~ Malcolm X
And even those Americans who are blinded by childlike patriotism can see that it is only a matter of time before White America too will be utterly destroyed by her own sins, and all traces of her former glory will be removed from this planet forever.
~ Malcolm X
Der Patriotismus ist noch nichts Negatives – und doch macht er mich oft mißtrauisch. Denn nur ein Schritt trennt ihn vom Nationalismus, und es ist wiederum bloß ein Schritt, der zwischen dem Nationalismus und dem Chauvinismus liegt. Mir gefällt Nietzsches Diktum, man solle Völker weder lieben noch hassen.
~ Marcel Reich-Ranicki
The freedom I live with and enjoy was established in their blood. They didn't even know me, but they were paying a debt for generations to come.
~ Marcus Brotherton
Yesterday was July the Fourth, which used to be Independence Day, before they abolished it.
~ Margaret Atwood
I planted him in this country like a flag
~ Margaret Atwood
I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.
~ Margaret Atwood
He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon. He neatly deflated the pompous and exposed the ignorant and the bigoted, and he did it in such subtle ways, drawing his victims out by his seemingly courteous interest, that they never were quite certain what had happened until they stood exposed as windy, high flown and slightly ridiculous.
~ Margaret Mitchell
To die for ones country, is to live forever.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.
~ Abdul Kalam
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
~ Laurence Binyon
This Thanksgiving, Americans are especially thankful for our freedom, and we are especially thankful to you, those who keep us free.
~ George W. Bush
I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.
~ Medgar Evers
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt