Quotes About Patriotism

Every time you think, you weaken the nation.

Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

God Save the King

My family, my country—right or wrong.' It is the ultimate betrayal of God.

No one wants their dreams broken. Patriotism is a very powerful force.

God only knows how many people, what families down the ages, have given their lives for their country. Don't try telling them now that they did it for an unworthy cause.

Es terrible traicionar a tu país. Me cuesta imaginar algo peor, salvo quizá traicionarte a ti mismo. El

when I hear people say "Six Flags," my mind fills in "Over Texas" and I have to resist the temptation to explain why "Six Flags." The six flags refer to the six flags of the countries that flew over Texas in history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.

Founder's Chic: Our Reverence for the Founding Fathers Has Gotten out of Hand, Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003.

SEC. 6. All free white persons who shall emigrate to this republic, and who shall, after a residence of six months, make oath before some competent authority that he intends to reside permanently in the same, and shall swear to support this Constitution, and that he will bear true allegiance

British and French patriotism are completely different emotions. Ours is a bit shamefaced and populist, theirs is the province of the intellectual.

You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.

It's hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary.

You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life." The way my father put it completely turned the issue around for me: suddenly the draft card wasn't so much an obligation as a chance to be part of something bigger than myself.

The Indian tricolour was raised just before sunset, and as it fluttered up the flagpole a late-monsoon rainbow emerged behind it, a glittering tribute from the heavens.

India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.

But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at

They charged that liberal relativism, permissiveness (= moral laxity), affirmative action, and secularism were softening the national will, mocking ideals of loyalty and patriotism, and in the process undermining national unity in the global struggle with Soviet communism.

Talk about burning the flag and he gets all choked up. Funny, so many of these guys think the country stands for the flag instead of the other way around.