Quotes About Loyalty

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

'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.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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

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

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.