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Patriotism Quotes


The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

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

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

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