Patriotism Quotes And Sayings

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“The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone’s lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.”
– Ernest Belfort Bax

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”
– Eugene V. Debs

“We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us….. The old “manifest destiny” idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can – and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.”
– Francis John Mcconnell

“Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.”
– Frank Knox 

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been recognized by the General Government; but the best security of that right after all is, the military spirit, that taste for martial exercises, which has always distinguished the free citizens of these States…Such men form the best barrier to the liberties of America.”
– Gazette

“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
– George Jean Nathan

“An instance within the memory of some of this house will show us how our militia may be destroyed. Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that is was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”
– George Mason

“The stench of the trail of Ego in our History.  It is ego – ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.”
– George Meredith

“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
– George Santayana

“I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.”
– George Washington

“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

“Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in the man in intelligent love. The patriot perceives the claim made upon his country by the circumstances and time of her growth and power, and how God is to be served by using those opportunities of helping mankind. Therefore his country’s honor is dear to him as his own, and he would as soon lie and steal himself as assist or excuse his country in a crime.”
– George William Curtis

“Love your country.  Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.”
– Giuseppe Mazzini

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
– Guy De Maupassant

“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”
– Hamilton Fish

“He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.”
– Henry Louis Gates 

“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.”
– Henry Steele Commager 

“Patriotism, in our day, is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield every thing that makes the land honorable. For the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. There never was a man so unpatriotic as Christ was. Old Jerusalem ought to have been everything to him. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have been more to him than all the men in his country. They were not, and the Jews hated him; but the common people, like the ocean waters, moved in tides towards his heavenly attraction wherever he went.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Patriotism is an attribute of the larger and nobler side of a human being’s soul. Patriotism is an evidence of that wider and greater development in man’s personality which is the product of civilization and the fruit of culture and refinement. The savage fights for himself; the semi-savage for his own family; the civilized, for his state, his nation, his tongue. This is true because with education and wealth come knowledge of personal worth and private possessions. Ownership, be it in a common cause or in a common place, makes men kindred. When a man enjoys a certain privilege along with others he becomes with them protectors of that privilege for its greatest enjoyment and longest possession.”
– Honor L. Wilhelm

“Patriotism is an evidence of the wider and deeper impulses of a man’s nature. It is a leaving of the carrion of one’s own petty individual self interests and a devotion of one’s mind and strength to another’s good and welfare, even to the personal loss of the man himself. It is a giving which is not tainted with price; it is a sacrifice where value is not measured by returns gained. It is the manifested love of one to another for all and is an attribute of human thought and deed born of the Eternal Spirit and finding life in the world regardless of its smothering smallness and petty limitations.”
– Honor L. Wilhelm

“I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”
– Isaac Asimov

“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
– J. Horace Mcfarland

“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance.  It is also owed to justice and to humanity.  Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
– James Bryce

“An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics — that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe…”
– James Madison

“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.”
– John Amery 

“One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.”
– John Avlon 

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
– John F. Kennedy

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