Patriotism Quotes

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

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.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

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.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

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?