quotes about Patriotism
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
-- Ai Weiwei -
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
-- Al Sharpton -
The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.
-- Allen Sapp -
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change...
-- Arthur Dove -
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 EhrenreichSource : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
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Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
-- Benjamin RushSource : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”
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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.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
-- Bob Dylan -
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour -
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
-- Carolyn WellsSource : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
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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.
-- Charles Edward Montague -
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
-- Charles Farrar Browne -
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Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
-- Chrissie Hynde -
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
-- Clara Barton -
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No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.
-- Cornelius Nepos -
I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
-- Dan Emmett -
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
-- Daniel Webster -
Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
-- David EhrenfeldSource : David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press
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Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.
-- David EhrenfeldSource : David Ehrenfeld (2008). “Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology”, p.245, Oxford University Press
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
-- David McCullough -
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
-- David Starr Jordan -
The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.
-- David Westin -
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I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
-- Dominique de VillepinSource : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger, Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.
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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
-- Edith Cavell -
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
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 -
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I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.
-- Evita Peron -
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
-- Fitz-Greene HalleckSource : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.11
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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 -
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.
-- Frank I. Cobb -
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
-- Frank Knox -
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.
-- Georg Baselitz -
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
-- George BerkeleySource : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.
-- George FarquharSource : 'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2
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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 GallowaySource : "Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.
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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 -
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The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
-- George Meredith -
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
-- George Orwell -
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
-- George Orwell -
If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
-- George Orwell -
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Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show
-- George Peppard -
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
-- George Washington -
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
-- Gustave Herve -
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
-- H. L. Mencken -
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
-- H. L. Mencken -
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
-- Harriet Ann JacobsSource : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130
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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 -
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 -
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
-- Henry ClaySource : Speech in the Senate (1848)
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
-- Henry James -
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
-- Henry Steele CommagerSource : "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.
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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
-- Ho Chi MinhSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
-- Homer -
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-- Howard ZinnSource : Source: abcnews.go.com
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What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
-- Huey Newton -
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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.
-- Huey Newton -
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
-- Huey Newton -
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
-- Huey Newton -
On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ***** during the National Anthem.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
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Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.
-- Igor Babailov -
I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.
-- Ingmar Bergman -
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
-- Isaac Asimov -
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
-- Jacques Maritain -
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National honor is national property of the highest value.
-- James MonroeSource : James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
-- Jane Addams -
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
-- John AmerySource : John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”
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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
-- John Avlon -
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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 BoltonSource : "Bolton 2012?". Interview with Robert Costa, www.nationalreview.com. June 20, 2011.
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
-- John Gunther -
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
-- John J. CrittendenSource : In Congress, when President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor, May, 1846.
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Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.
-- John Lukacs -
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Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
-- John Stark -
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 -
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
-- John Woo -
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
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Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
-- Julius Nyerere -
Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.
-- Julius Sterling Morton -
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
-- Karl Kraus -
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
-- Karl Kraus -
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
-- Kjell Magne Bondevik -