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Quotes About Loyalty

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
~ Rufus Choate
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.
~ Edward Snowden
If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
~ George Orwell
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
~ David Gemmell
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
~ Carolyn Wells
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
~ Pierre Corneille
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.
~ Dov Davidoff
I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
~ Albert Einstein
Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.
~ Barack Obama
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.
~ Win Butler
Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
~ W. C. Brownell
My country, right or wrong, but still my country.
~ Stephen Decatur
...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.
~ Mark Twain
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
~ William Rainey Harper
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
~ Bertrand Russell
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong, " and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
~ Mark Twain
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~ George Bernard Shaw