Patriotism Quotes

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
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
– Lech Walesa
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
– Parker Stevenson
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.
– Dominique de Villepin
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
– Tom Hooper
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
– Chrissie Hynde
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
– Bill Maher
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
– Michael Ignatieff
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
– Robert Walpole
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
– Howard Zinn
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.
– Nick Lampson
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
– Thomas E. Mann
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
– Jack Bowman
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
– William Blum
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
– Richard Ford
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
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
– James Bryce
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.
– Ann Coulter
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
Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism... which equates the national honor with military victory.
– James A. Donovan
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
– D. D. Field
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
– David Lloyd George
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
– Thomas Hardy
The Peace Conference was the scene, or, shall we say, the first stage, in a tremendous struggle between the new forces, the new hopes and aspirations to which the agony of the World War had given birth, and the champions of the old order in patriotism and in economic relations alike.
– Arthur Henderson
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
– O. Henry
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.
– Sam Houston
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
– David Hume
Patriotism - is defined as love and devotion to one's country. But, oftentimes, it takes as much, if not more courage to speak out against our government. It is that love of country that compel some to speak out and oppose our government's actions.
– Daniel Inouye
We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways. Someone who was deeply against the war in 1969 or 1970 may well have served their country with equal passion and patriotism by opposing the war as by fighting in it.
– John F. Kerry
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
– Frank Knox
A sea of red coats and white trousers, in perfect step, the airs of the Republic blasted with particular gusto, the kind of sing-along oom pah pah of which patriotism is made.
– Dena Kleiman
If a person is an economic being and figures out the odds, then there is a very high incentive to cheat. That is, of course, putting aside honor, duty and patriotism.
– Jerome Kurtz
For many elites in the entertainment industry, academic community and in the big national media, patriotism by 'flag wavers' is a hokey, outdated concept.
– Trent Lott
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
– Ricardo Montalban
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
– Guy de Maupassant
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
– Bob Riley
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
– Leo Tolstoy
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
– Howard Thurman
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.
– Richard Weaver
I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
– Edith Cavell
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.
– Henry David Thoreau
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
– H. L. Mencken
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.
– Barack Obama
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
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
– Jane Addams
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
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
– George McGovern
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
– Mark Twain
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
– Rebecca Harding Davis
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.
– Scott Ritter
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
– Prescott Bush
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
– Tommy Lee Jones
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
– Ted Cruz
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
– Michael D. Higgins
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.
– Mike Ferguson
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
– Rosa DeLauro