Patriotism Quotes And Sayings

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“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.”
– Seneca

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ”
– Stephen Ambrose

“While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for people who care about the common good but are alienated by the all too frequent use of patriotism and patriotic symbols to stifle debate, tarnish the images of rival candidates, or arouse popular support for aggressive military policies.”
– Stephen Nathanson

“Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one’s country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots, on the other hand, see that taking morality seriously requires that our commitment to our country be conditional in two ways. First, the actions or policies of a government must be worthy of support or, at least, must not be serious violations of morality. When nations behave immorally, patriots need not support them.”
– Stephen Nathanson

“Patriotism, to be, posits a complex relationship of self-destruction: it legitimizes actions taken in the name of basic political principles that traduce those same principles; it accords itself a special, perhaps higher, authority to monopolize politics and to silence, marginalize, and ultimately disable opposition, particularly when opposition matters most; it induces affective states that lead to plans and policies otherwise objectionable or even unthinkable; it conceals the damage that it does through professions of love and declamations of terrible necessity that adherents would recognize; it emerges as a primap, preemptive force precisely because polities cannot face the cruelties, injustices, and exclusions that characterize them. Thus perhaps patriotism cannot but be insistent, imperitival, and univocal. In sum, patriotism proves itself to be anything but indispensable to democracy; rather democracy’s future depends on its emergence from patriotism’s self-obsessive grip.”
– Steven Johnston

“Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, “the greatest,” but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.”
– Ted Cruz

“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover.  Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.”
– Thucydides

“The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age…”
– Unknown

“If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.”
– Unknown

“The lines of ink across the map turn red.”
– Unknown

“What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“Patriotism is a narrow minded concept. It binds a nation in the bonds of love and loyalty. But it does not consider the international brotherhood of man.”
– V. P. Gautam

“Patriotism is not restricted to leaders and eminent individuals. Every citizen of this country is a patriot if he works towards the accomplishment of goals, made by the founding fathers of this nation. He should remove social inequality and work hard to remove poverty and set this nation on a path of economic glory. A farmer is a patriot. A cobbler is a patriot if he works hard. A sweeper who does his duty, is a patriot. Therefore, patriotism has no rank and file.”
– V. P. Gautam

“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
– Voltaire

“The patriot labours, not for signs of success, but for the accomplishment of that which is right. He must be painstaking, if his labours are to prove useful; and he must be patient, if his work is to be crowned with completion. Reckless, random action is not the sign of patriotism, and, whether it be borne with a longer or a shorter period, it always ends in collapse.”
– W. Glenny-Crory

“The essence of patriotism is the sacrifice of personal interest to public welfare.”
– William H. Burnham

“Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind.  We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands.  The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race.  Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.”
– William Lloyd Garrison

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”
– William R. Inge

“No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.”
– William Rainey Harper

“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”
– William Shenstone

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
– Winston Churchill

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