Quotes About Citizenship

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

'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.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

It's only important to differentiate between patriotism and nationalism. I speak of enlightened patriotism.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.