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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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.Collection: Patriotism
It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.Collection: Patriotism
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.Collection: Patriotism
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.Collection: Patriotism
It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.Collection: Patriotism
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.Collection: Patriotism
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.Collection: Patriotism
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!Collection: Patriotism
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.Collection: Patriotism
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
A nation is the same people living in the same place.Collection: Patriotism
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.Collection: Patriotism
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.Collection: Patriotism
If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
'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.'Collection: Patriotism
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.Collection: Patriotism
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.Collection: Patriotism
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.Collection: Patriotism
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.Collection: Patriotism
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.Collection: Patriotism
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?Collection: Patriotism
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
Patriots don't let their nation default.Collection: Patriotism
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.Collection: Patriotism
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.Collection: Patriotism
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.Collection: Patriotism
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.Collection: Patriotism
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Patriotism
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.Collection: Patriotism
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?Collection: Patriotism