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Quotes About Country

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
~ Robert E. Lee
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
~ James Bryce
I love my country, not my government.
~ Jesse Ventura
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
~ J. Horace McFarland
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.
~ Strive Masiyiwa
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
~ George William Curtis
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
~ Karl Kraus
A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.
~ George H. W. Bush
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
~ Emma Goldman
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.
~ Smedley Butler
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
~ Seneca the Younger
It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
~ George Washington
No one is patriotic about taxes.
~ George Orwell
Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.
~ Mike Cloud
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
~ Carl Schurz
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.
~ George Farquhar
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.
~ Charlotte Knobloch
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
~ Adrienne Rich
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
~ Seneca the Younger