Famous Quotes
- Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Charles De Gaulle on Patriotism
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw on Patriotism
- Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
- Henry Bolingbroke on Patriotism
- Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
- Frank Knox on Patriotism
- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Patriotism
- Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
- Ambrose Bierce on Patriotism
- Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
- Ricardo Montalban on Patriotism
- Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
- Todd Gitlin on Patriotism
- The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
- Bernadine Dohrn on Patriotism
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- Leo Tolstoy on Patriotism
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- David Hume on Patriotism
- The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
- Herbert Croly on Patriotism
- The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
- George McGovern on Patriotism
- The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals on Patriotism
- The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
- Todd Gitlin on Patriotism
- The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
- Earl Warren on Patriotism
- The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
- Ronnie James Dio on Patriotism
- The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
- Clara Barton on Patriotism
- The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
- William Shenstone on Patriotism
- The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
- Bruno Bauer on Patriotism
- The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Lyn Nofziger on Patriotism
- The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Patriotism
- The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
- Robert Walpole on Patriotism
- There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
- Robert Charles Winthrop on Patriotism
- There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
- Jonathan Mayhew on Patriotism
- There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
- George Galloway on Patriotism
- There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
- Todd Gitlin on Patriotism
- There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
- Bruce Springsteen on Patriotism
- There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
- John Bolton on Patriotism
- There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
- Michael Ignatieff on Patriotism
- These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
- Michael N. Castle on Patriotism
- These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.
- Schuyler Colfax on Patriotism
- They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
- Henry A. Wallace on Patriotism
- To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
- Robert Jackson on Patriotism
- To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana on Patriotism
- Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
- Steve Allen on Patriotism
- True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
- Clarence Darrow on Patriotism
- True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
- Robert Reich on Patriotism
- Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
- Jimmy Carter on Patriotism
- Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
- Vic Snyder on Patriotism
- Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik on Patriotism
- Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
- Jane Addams on Patriotism
- We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
- Francois Hollande on Patriotism
- We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Patriotism
- We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
- Francis John McConnell on Patriotism
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
- Dave Barry on Patriotism
- We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
- Barack Obama on Patriotism
- Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
- Adam Carolla on Patriotism
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
- Ambrose Bierce on Patriotism
- When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
- David Starr Jordan on Patriotism
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