Patriotism Quotes - page 5

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision. (Dominique de Villepin)
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. View quote
Emily Levine
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. View quote
Francis John McConnell
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose. View quote
Frank Knox
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. View quote
Henry Bolingbroke
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. View quote
Herbert Croly
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. View quote
John Amery
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. View quote
John Woo
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. View quote
Jonathan Mayhew
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. (Mike Ferguson)
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together. View quote
Parker Stevenson
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. View quote
Robert Reich
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. View quote
Rosa DeLauro
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. View quote
Ricardo Montalban
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. View quote
Todd Gitlin
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly. View quote
Will Thomas
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism? View quote
Jimmy Stewart
Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism. To believe otherwise is to oppose the very idea of America. View quote
John McCain
While I don't in any way question your honor, your patriotism or your service to our country, I do question some of the decisions, the judgments you've made over the past two and a half years. During that time things have gotten markedly and progressively worse. View quote
John McCain
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised. (Robert Walpole)
Necessity, as well as patriotism and confidence, will make us all eager to receive treasury notes, if founded on specific taxes. Congress may borrow of the public, and without interest, all the money they may want, to the amount of a competent circulation, by merely issuing their own promissory notes, of proper denominations for the larger purposes of circulation, but not for the small. Leave that door open for the entrance of metallic money. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind. View quote
John Quincy Adams
I tell you, Mr. Hunsden, you are a more unpractical man than I am an unpractical woman, for you don't acknowledge what really exists; you want to annihilate individual patriotism and national greatness as an atheist would annihilate God and his own soul, by denying their existence. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race. View quote
Umberto Eco