Motivational Quotes

Patriotism

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

- Woodrow Wilson

Best Quotes about Patriotism

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

Joseph Addison

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.

Curtis, George William

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Coolidge, Calvin

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Custine, Marquis De

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

Homer

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Bierce, Ambrose

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

G. K. Chesterton

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Diderot, Denis

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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Bunuel, Luis

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Adler, Alfred

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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Melville, Herman

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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Cohan, George M.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 b

Washington, George

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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

John Adams

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You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Who saves his country violates no law.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Woodrow Wilson

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Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Adler, Felix

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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Scott, Sir Walter

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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

George S. Patton

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O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Nathan, George Jean

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My country, always wrong.

Student Slogan

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Horace

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Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Addison, Joseph

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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Homer

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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Agnew, Spiro T.

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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

Field, D. D.

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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Lewis, Sinclair

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You're not 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

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Wharton, Edith