Famous Quotes About - patriotism

  • 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 {view}
  • 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. ... George William Curtis {view}
  • A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ... William Ralph Inge {view}
  • A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ... Bill Vaughan {view}
  • 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? ... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. ... Howard Zinn {view}
  • Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. ... Dale Carnegie {view}
  • Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. ... Robert Walpole {view}
  • Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ... George Washington {view}
  • Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ... Diogenes {view}
  • I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. ... Michael Ignatieff {view}
  • I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. ... Bob Riley {view}
  • I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ... Eugene V. Debs {view}
  • I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ... James A. Baldwin {view}
  • I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ... Nathan Hale {view}
  • I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ... Edith Cavell {view}
  • 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 Galloway {view}
  • It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ... Voltaire {view}
  • It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ... Arthur C. Clarke {view}
  • It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ... Alfred Adler {view}
  • It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. ... Ho Chi Minh {view}
  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. ... Richard Aldington {view}
  • Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! ... Alexander Henry {view}
  • Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ... James Bryce {view}
  • Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ... Guy de Maupassant {view}
  • Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. ... Mick Jagger {view}
  • Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ... Calvin Coolidge {view}
  • Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ... Adlai E. Stevenson {view}
  • Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ... George Jean Nathan {view}
  • Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • The average American is nothing if not patriotic. ... Herbert Croly {view}