Famous Quotes
- 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
- Rosa DeLauro on Patriotism
- 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
- Doc Hastings on Patriotism
- 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 on Patriotism
- A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William Ralph Inge on Patriotism
- A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
- Bill Vaughan on Patriotism
- Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
- Evan Bayh on Patriotism
- Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
- Mike Ferguson on Patriotism
- America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
- Richard Ford on Patriotism
- America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
- William Blum on Patriotism
- Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
- Richard M. Nixon on Patriotism
- But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
- Jack Bowman on Patriotism
- But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
- Thomas E. Mann on Patriotism
- But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
- Nick Lampson on Patriotism
- Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise Pascal on Patriotism
- Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
- Howard Zinn on Patriotism
- During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
- Howard Thurman on Patriotism
- Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
- Dale Carnegie on Patriotism
- Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
- Chaim Potok on Patriotism
- For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
- Joseph Brodsky on Patriotism
- Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
- Robert Walpole on Patriotism
- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington on Patriotism
- Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein on Patriotism
- I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
- Michael D. Higgins on Patriotism
- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Diogenes on Patriotism
- I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
- Jesse Ventura on Patriotism
- I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
- Bob Dylan on Patriotism
- I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
- Michael Ignatieff on Patriotism
- I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
- Bill Maher on Patriotism
- I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Patriotism
- I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
- Bob Riley on Patriotism
- I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V. Debs on Patriotism
- I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
- Chrissie Hynde on Patriotism
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy on Patriotism
- I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
- Edith Cavell on Patriotism
- I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
- John F. Kerry on Patriotism
- I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
- Tom Hooper on Patriotism
- I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
- Ted Cruz on Patriotism
- I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
- Dominique De Villepin on Patriotism
- I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
- Ted Cruz on Patriotism
- I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
- Parker Stevenson on Patriotism
- I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Lech Walesa on Patriotism
- I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- George Galloway on Patriotism
- If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
- Tommy Lee Jones on Patriotism
- If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
- Bill Kristol on Patriotism
- If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- Ronald Reagan on Patriotism
- If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
- Jennifer Granholm on Patriotism
- In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
- Tom Hooper on Patriotism
- In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
- John Sergeant Wise on Patriotism
- In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
- George J. Mitchell on Patriotism
- Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
- Sinclair Lewis on Patriotism
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