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Quotes About Loyalty

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
~ Isaac Asimov
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~ Nathan Hale
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
~ Brock Chisholm
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~ George Washington
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?
~ Jimmy Stewart
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
I love my country, not my government.
~ Jesse Ventura
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
~ G. Edward Griffin
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
~ Emma Goldman
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
~ J. Horace McFarland
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
~ Robert Charles Winthrop
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
~ Gordon Allport
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
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
~ Stanley Milgram
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
~ Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
~ Grover Cleveland
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
~ Henry James
All true patriots will meet in heaven.
~ Charlotte Corday
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
~ John J. Crittenden
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.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
~ Voltaire