Patriotism Quotes

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.

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

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.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

There's a fine line between patriotism and corn.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

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.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.