Famous Quotes
- It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Voltaire on Patriotism
- It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke on Patriotism
- It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
- John Amery on Patriotism
- It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
- Prescott Bush on Patriotism
- It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
- Alfred Adler on Patriotism
- It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
- Eric Hobsbawm on Patriotism
- It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
- Ho Chi Minh on Patriotism
- Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
- Janet Suzman on Patriotism
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy on Patriotism
- Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.
- Richard Dreyfuss on Patriotism
- Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
- Ann Coulter on Patriotism
- Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
- Ted Cruz on Patriotism
- Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
- O. Henry on Patriotism
- Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
- Henry Steele Commager on Patriotism
- Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Patriotism
- My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
- Malcolm Turnbull on Patriotism
- My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
- John Woo on Patriotism
- Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
- Richard Aldington on Patriotism
- Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein on Patriotism
- Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
- George Borrow on Patriotism
- No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
- Barbara Ehrenreich on Patriotism
- Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
- Will Thomas on Patriotism
- One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
- Aldous Huxley on Patriotism
- One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
- John Avlon on Patriotism
- One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
- Scott Ritter on Patriotism
- Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
- Douglas MacArthur on Patriotism
- Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
- Cory Booker on Patriotism
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
- Rebecca Harding Davis on Patriotism
- Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- Mark Twain on Patriotism
- Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
- James Bryce on Patriotism
- Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
- Charles Edward Montague on Patriotism
- Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
- Greil Marcus on Patriotism
- Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- Guy De Maupassant on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Denis Diderot on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
- Bill Kristol on Patriotism
- Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
- Mick Jagger on Patriotism
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
- Henry Louis Gates on Patriotism
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
- Henry Louis Gates on Patriotism
- Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
- Wallace Shawn on Patriotism
- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- Calvin Coolidge on Patriotism
- Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson on Patriotism
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan on Patriotism
- Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
- Michael Ignatieff on Patriotism
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the religion of hell.
- James Branch Cabell on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde on Patriotism
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell on Patriotism
- Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
- George Orwell on Patriotism
- Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
- Jesse Ventura on Patriotism
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