Patriotism Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

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.

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.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

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.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.