| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Ronald Reagan | If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.  | 101 |
| Harry S Truman | America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. | 101 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. | 101 |
| Joe Biden | Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. | 101 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. | 101 |
| Chris Kyle | It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. | 101 |
| Diane Hendricks | I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind. | 101 |
| Oliver Tambo | The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. | 101 |
| R. Lee Ermey | It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. | 101 |
| Veerappa Moily | Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this. | 101 |
| Adam Carolla | Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor. | 101 |
| Bernadine Dohrn | 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. | 101 |
| Frederick Reines | My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. | 101 |
| Marian Anderson | I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. | 101 |
| Nick Lampson | 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. | 101 |
| Thomas Campbell | The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. | 101 |
| Todd Gitlin | There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. | 101 |
| Augusto Pinochet | During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland. | 101 |
| Bob Riley | I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. | 101 |
| Edith Cavell | I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. | 101 |
| Francis John McConnell | We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. | 101 |
| Guy de Maupassant | Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. | 101 |
| Kenny Marchant | This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. | 101 |
| Thomas Steinbeck | From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. | 101 |
| Bill Kristol | If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. | 101 |
| Scott Ritter | 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. | 101 |
| Prescott Bush | It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. | 101 |
| Taylor Branch | The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. | 101 |
| Joe Barton | Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. | 101 |
| Allen Boyd | America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. | 101 |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter | Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. | 101 |
| Robert Charles Winthrop | There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. | 101 |
| James Bryce | Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. | 101 |
| John F. Kerry | I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. | 101 |
| Richard Aldington | Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. | 101 |
| Antonio Lobo Antunes | I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. | 101 |
| John Amery | 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. | 101 |
| Alexander Hamilton | There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. | 102 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. | 102 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. | 102 |
| Cory Booker | Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good. | 102 |
| Eugene V. Debs | I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. | 102 |
| Pauline Hanson | To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. | 102 |
| Robert Reich | True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. | 102 |
| Stonewall Jackson | The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. | 102 |
| Franklin Knight Lane | For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. | 102 |
| George William Curtis | 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. | 102 |
| Michael Ignatieff | I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. | 102 |
| Payne Stewart | Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. | 102 |
| Terry McAuliffe | I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' | 102 |
| Chaim Potok | Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. | 102 |
| Charlie Dent | We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. | 102 |
| Christopher McCulloch | I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world. | 102 |
| Mike Fitzpatrick | The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. | 102 |
| William Blum | America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. | 102 |
| George Borrow | Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. | 102 |
| Bob Latta | Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light. | 102 |
| Eric Hobsbawm | It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. | 102 |
| John Abizaid | Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important. | 102 |
| Mike Ferguson | 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. | 102 |
| John Woo | My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. | 102 |
| Barack Obama | 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. | 103 |
| Frank Knox | Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. | 103 |
| Pablo Casals | The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? | 103 |
| William Cowper | No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. | 103 |
| Dominique de Villepin | I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision. | 103 |
| Elmer Davis | This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. | 103 |
| Evan Bayh | 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. | 103 |
| George Galloway | There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. | 103 |
| Henry Steele Commager | 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. | 103 |
| Vic Snyder | Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. | 103 |
| William Shenstone | The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. | 103 |
| Bill Vaughan | A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. | 103 |
| Gary Speed | I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team. | 103 |
| Kjell Magne Bondevik | Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. | 103 |
| Palaniappan Chidambaram | I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition. | 103 |
| Sukarno | I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. | 103 |
| Thomas Steinbeck | My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function. | 103 |
| Will Thomas | Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. | 103 |
| Robert Walpole | Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. | 103 |
| John Thune | I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. | 103 |
| John Dos Passos | It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you. | 103 |
| Jonathan Mayhew | There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. | 103 |
| Bruno Bauer | The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. | 103 |
| David Starr Jordan | When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! | 103 |
| Joseph M. Kyrillos | To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about. | 103 |
| Jeff Denham | Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America. | 103 |
| Abraham Lincoln | My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. | 104 |
| Clarence Darrow | True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. | 104 |
| Jesse Ventura | There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. | 104 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. | 104 |
| Patrick Henry | Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! | 104 |
| William Pitt | If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! | 104 |
| Franklin Knight Lane | My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. | 104 |
| Henry IV of England | Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. | 104 |
| Robert Jackson | To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. | 104 |
| Sinclair Lewis | Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. | 104 |
| Emily Levine | Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. | 104 |
| Michael N. Castle | 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. | 104 |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century. | 104 |
| Bill Kristol | Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. | 104 |
| Leon Bourgeois | The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league. | 104 |
| Mark Burnett | When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words. | 104 |
| Chrissie Hynde | I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. | 104 |
| Edward Abbey | A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. | 105 |
| Marco Rubio | Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all. | 105 |
| George J. Mitchell | 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. | 105 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. | 105 |
| Rosa DeLauro | 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. | 105 |
| James Branch Cabell | Patriotism is the religion of hell. | 105 |
| Rebecca Harding Davis | 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. | 105 |
| Ronnie James Dio | The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? | 105 |
| Steve Allen | Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. | 105 |
| John Avlon | One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. | 105 |
| Howard Zinn | Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. | 106 |
| Parker Stevenson | 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. | 106 |
| Tecumseh | Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. | 106 |
| Howard Thurman | During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. | 106 |
| Ricardo Montalban | 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. | 106 |
| Chesty Puller | My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. | 106 |
| Gary Ackerman | Patriots don't let their nation default. | 106 |
| Thomas E. Mann | But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. | 106 |
| Charles Edward Montague | 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. | 106 |
| Robert Walpole | It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. | 106 |
| Steven Hatfill | I am a loyal American, and I love my country. | 106 |
| George Canning | A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. | 107 |
| John Buford | I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command. | 107 |
| Joseph P. Bradley | I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush. | 107 |
| George Santayana | To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. | 108 |
| George McGovern | 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. | 108 |
| Jane Addams | Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. | 108 |
| Robert Walpole | 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! | 108 |
| George S. Patton | Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. | 109 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice. | 109 |
| Ho Chi Minh | It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. | 109 |
| Walter Annenberg | My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country. | 109 |
| David O. McKay | Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. | 109 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society. | 109 |
| Todd Gitlin | Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. | 109 |
| Tom Hooper | I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally. | 109 |
| Janet Suzman | Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. | 109 |
| John F. Kennedy | I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. | 110 |
| George Jean Nathan | Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. | 110 |
| Harvey Pekar | When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. | 110 |
| Lech Walesa | The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. | 110 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. | 110 |
| Michael Ignatieff | There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. | 110 |
| John Linder | The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world. | 110 |
| George Washington | Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. | 111 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. | 111 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. | 111 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. | 111 |
| James Joyce | A nation is the same people living in the same place. | 111 |
| Bill Hicks | I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked. | 111 |
| Clara Barton | The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. | 111 |
| Ron Paul | Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. | 111 |
| Joseph Brodsky | For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. | 111 |
| Charles M. Blow | America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism. | 111 |
| Michael Mandelbaum | The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped. | 111 |
| John Sergeant Wise | In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia. | 111 |
| Chris Kyle | When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses. | 112 |
| Marine Le Pen | There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country. | 112 |
| Tommy Lee Jones | 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. | 112 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. | 112 |
| Greil Marcus | Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. | 112 |
| Ronald Reagan | If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. | 113 |
| Patrick Henry | When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. | 113 |
| William Ralph Inge | A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. | 113 |
| Richard Ford | America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism. | 113 |
| Jack Bowman | But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. | 113 |
| Lincoln Steffens | The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle. | 114 |
| Ann Coulter | 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. | 115 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 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. | 115 |
| Claire Danes | Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake. | 115 |
| Davy Crockett | I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. | 115 |
| Earl Warren | The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. | 115 |
| Herbert Croly | The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. | 115 |
| Jennifer Granholm | If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction. | 115 |
| Cory Booker | When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. | 116 |
| John C. Calhoun | Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness. | 116 |
| Jodi Kantor | Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. | 116 |
| Richard Dreyfuss | Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation. | 117 |
| John F. Kennedy | Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. | 118 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Americans never quit. | 118 |
| Robert E. Lee | I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. | 118 |
| Sitting Bull | I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself. | 118 |
| Claire Danes | Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. | 118 |
| O. Henry | Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! | 118 |
| George Galloway | 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. | 118 |
| Leo Tolstoy | 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. | 119 |
| Francois Hollande | 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. | 119 |
| Melania Trump | I have been with Donald for 18 years, and I have been aware of his love for this country since we first met. He never had a hidden agenda when it comes to his patriotism because, like me, he loves this country so much. | 119 |
| Russell Crowe | War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. | 119 |
| Christine Pelosi | Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation. | 119 |
| David L. Wolper | There's a fine line between patriotism and corn. | 119 |
| Bob Hope | If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. | 120 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. | 121 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved! | 121 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. | 122 |
| Monica Crowley | During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.' | 122 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. | 122 |
| Michael D. Higgins | 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. | 122 |
| Bill Maher | To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. | 123 |
| Tom Hooper | In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. | 123 |
| Bob Dylan | I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. | 124 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. | 124 |
| Samuel Johnson | Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. | 124 |
| Henry A. Wallace | 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. | 125 |
| Wallace Shawn | Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? | 125 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism. | 126 |
| Nate Parker | I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better. | 201 |
| Todd Gitlin | The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. | 201 |
| Winston Churchill | Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. | 202 |
| David Hume | The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. | 202 |
| David Blunkett | What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism. | 202 |
| Henry James | However British you may be, I am more British still. | 202 |
| Henry Louis Gates | Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. | 202 |
| Lao Tzu | When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. | 204 |
| Juan Williams | If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. | 204 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. | 205 |
| Bill Maher | 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? | 205 |
| Clive Sinclair | Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism. | 205 |
| Malcolm X | You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. | 206 |
| Jesse Ventura | Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. | 206 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.' | 206 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. | 207 |
| Alfred Adler | It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. | 208 |
| Dale Carnegie | Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. | 209 |
| Cory Booker | Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. | 209 |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. | 209 |
| Mick Jagger | Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. | 209 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. | 210 |
| Jesse Ventura | I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. | 210 |
| Ted Cruz | I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism. | 210 |
| Denis Diderot | Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. | 211 |
| Mark Twain | Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. | 212 |
| Henry Louis Gates | Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. | 212 |
| Ellen DeGeneres | I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. | 215 |
| Henry James | If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. | 215 |
| Dave Barry | We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. | 216 |
| John Bolton | 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. | 216 |
| Alexander Pope | The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. | 217 |
| Ellen Key | Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society. | 217 |
| Aldous Huxley | One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. | 220 |
| Lord Byron | For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? | 221 |
| Lech Walesa | I want to light the lights of patriotism. | 223 |
| Oscar Wilde | Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. | 225 |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | 225 |
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos. | 226 |
| Bruce Springsteen | There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. | 302 |
| Gordon Brown | The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. | 305 |
| Voltaire | It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. | 306 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America. | 306 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism. | 308 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | I think Americans are very patriotic. | 310 |
| George Orwell | Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. | 311 |
| Ellen Key | Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. | 313 |
| Cory Booker | I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. | 315 |
| Jesse Ventura | Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. | 315 |
| Jimmy Carter | 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. | 316 |
| Elon Musk | America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. | 324 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. | 324 |
| Maria Montessori | Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son. | 326 |
| Jesse Ventura | Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents. | 401 |
| George Clooney | I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes. | 402 |
| Phil Klay | I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. | 403 |
| Caitlyn Jenner | The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism. | 414 |
| Morrissey | I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. | 416 |
| Ted Cruz | Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. | 418 |
| George Takei | When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien. | 419 |
| Winston Churchill | I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. | 420 |
| Ted Cruz | 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. | 420 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. | 423 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' | 502 |
| Jesse Ventura | My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do. | 503 |
| Albert Einstein | Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! | 520 |
| Mark Twain | Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. | 522 |
| 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. | 526 |
| George Bernard Shaw | You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. | 605 |
| Cory Booker | Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny. | 709 |
| Abraham Lincoln | True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. | 722 |
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