Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. — Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. — Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce
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
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — Adlai Stevenson
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. — George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. — Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. — Tao Lin
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. — Guy de Maupassant
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. — Clarence Darrow
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
Short Patriotism In America Quotes
Patriotism isn’t just a feeling, it’s a commitment to act on behalf of your country. — Martha C. Nussbaum
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. — Queen Elizabeth II
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. — Thomas Campbell
Patriotism In America Image Quotes
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Patriotism In America Quotes
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. — Samuel Adams
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
Love your country, but never trust its government.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams
He’s for real. If you look up the definition of patriotism in the dictionary, his picture is there. — Bill Miller
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. — Woodrow Wilson
I believe in the strength of US institutions and democracy. Peaceful transition of power is at the core. Joe Biden won the election. — Ursula von der Leyen
I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India — Narendra Modi
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. — Felix Frankfurter
What Is An American Quotes
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? — H. G. Wells
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. — Evander Holyfield
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. — Sarah Zettel
The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. — Fareed Zakaria
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. — Steve Busby
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness. — Clarence Francis
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. — Ronald Reagan
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but in order for us to actually be free in our social interactions, there must be an extremely elaborated network of health, law, institutions, moral rules and so on. — Slavoj Žižek
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? — Douglas MacArthur
American Patriotism Quotes
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry S. Truman
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. — John Wayne
America is a young country with an old mentality.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders. — Samuel Adams
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution — Frederick Douglass
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded. — Eleanor Roosevelt
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock
Patriotism Quotes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant
Patriotism And Nationalism Quotes
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas. — Brock Chisholm
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. — Mark Twain
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. — Sydney J. Harris
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. — Bahá'u'lláh
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others." — Robert Anton Wilson
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
Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. — Johannes Rau
True Patriotism Quotes
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same. — Robert E. Lee
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue — George M. Cohan
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. — Alan Bullock
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. — Robert Charles Winthrop
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment. — Strive Masiyiwa
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state. — Ron Paul
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. — Wendell Willkie
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Usa Patriotic Quotes
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. — L. Neil Smith
I love my country, not my government. — Jesse Ventura
I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism. — Shepard Fairey
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? — John Wayne
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world. — Herman Melville
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. — Max Lerner
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish. — Geraldine Ferraro
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow. — John Stark
Patriotism And Freedom Quotes
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. — Samuel Adams
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. — Colin Powell
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. — William Wallace
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. — John Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered. — James Longstreet
United with our allies, we will stand up for freedom and democracy around the world. Recognising that we can’t have security at home without having security abroad. — Liz Truss
Inspirational Patriotic Quotes
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country. — Andrew Johnson
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. — Benjamin Rush
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament. — Benjamin Rush
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. — Thomas Paine
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It’s simply the best organization in the world. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life. — Herbert Hoover
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? — George Washington
Unpatriotic Quotes
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. — Robert Fisk
Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. — Sayings
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country. — Steven T. Byington
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not. — Patti Smith
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. — Rand Paul
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them. — Robert Reich
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. — James Madison
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. — Frederick Douglass
God bless America, land that I love. — Irving Berlin
I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society. — Cardi B
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. — Theodore Roosevelt
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! — Thomas Jefferson
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. — George W. Bush
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. — Hunter S. Thompson
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. — Ezra Taft Benson
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. — Barack Obama
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. — Barack Obama
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. — Monte Irvin
When the secretary of treasury, the head of the central bank, the head of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), and the head of the New York Fed say, "We want you to do this because we think it's in the best interest of the United States of America," you know, we're like the Japanese. We're a little patriotic that way. We said, "Yes, sir!" — Jamie Dimon
I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home. — Wilhelm Steinitz
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. — Hubert H. Humphrey
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this. — Benjamin Franklin
He loves his country best who strives to make it best. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca
We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate. — Geneva Overholser
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self. — Eric Liu
America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson
I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America. — Vincent Gallo
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
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. — Benjamin Franklin
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. — Theodore Roosevelt
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring. — Samuel Francis Smith
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. — Charles Farrar Browne
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