Patriotism Quotes

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

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.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor.

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.