Patriotism Quotes - page 4

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. (David Hume)
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. View quote
Bob Dylan
In my opinion, patriotism is liberty. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. View quote
Herman Melville
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. View quote
Robertson Davies
About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous – something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings. View quote
Chittaranjan Das
God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism! View quote
Anton Chekhov
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. View quote
Mark Twain
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. (Aldous Huxley)
Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism. View quote
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people. View quote
Gerald Ford
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Patriotism means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry. Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible--from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius of our scientists. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched. View quote
Frances Hardinge
The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! View quote
David Starr Jordan
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. (Cory Booker)
The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting. View quote
Carl Schurz
Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor. View quote
Adam Carolla
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. View quote
Bernardine Dohrn