Patriotism Quotes And Sayings

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“Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.”
– Joseph Smith

“The flavor of patriotism depends upon its habitat.”
– Joseph Smith

“Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one’s own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.”
– Julius Sterling Morton

“By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one’s own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and … consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most undoubted meaning is for rulers nothing else but a means of realizing their ambitions and venal ends; for the governed it is a renouncing of human dignity, intelligence, and conscience, and a slavish submission to the rulers. Wherever patriotism is championed, it is preached invariably in that shape. Patriotism is slavery.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
– Lin Yutang

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
– Malcolm X

“Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.”
– Mark Twain

“My body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm … it is I who suffers, not the state. ”
– Mark Twain

“My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
– Mark Twain

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”
– Mark Twain

“That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.”
– Mark Twain

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class – save Congress.”
– Mark Twain

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it cost nothing to be a patriot. ”
– Mark Twain

“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.”
– Mark Twain

“Patriotism is merely a religion–love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country’s flag and honor and welfare.”
– Mark Twain

“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.”
– Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
– Mark Twain

“True patriotism is quiet, simple, dignified; it is not blatant, verbose, vociferous. The noisy shriekers who go about with a chip on their shoulders and cry aloud for war upon the slightest provocation belong to the class contemptuously known as “Jingoes.” They may be patriotic–and as a fact they often are–but their patriotism is too frothy, too hysteric, too unintelligent, to inspire confidence. True patriotism is not swift to resent an insult; on the contrary, it is slow to take offense, slow to believe that an insult could have been intended. True patriotism, believing fully in the honesty of its own acts, assumes also that others are acting with the same honesty. True patriotism, having a solid pride in the power and resources of our country, doubts always the likelihood of any other nation being willing to arouse our enmity.”
– Maurice Garland Fulton

“Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man’s nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don’t like it.”
– Max Eastman

“There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.”
– Michael Ignatieff 

“I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Force, violence, pressure or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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