Patriotism Quotes

"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

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
-George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
-Steve Allen

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

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
-Woodrow Wilson

"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

"'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

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
-George S. Patton

"When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!"
-David Starr Jordan

"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives."
-John Adams

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
-Andrew Jackson

"I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed."
-Sam Houston

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
-George Jean Nathan

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
-Bertrand Russell

"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."
-George William Curtis

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
-Guy De Maupassant

"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
-Thorstein Veblen

"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

"Patriotism is the religion of hell."
-James Branch Cabell

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

"...the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity."
-Polybius

"Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy."
-W. R. Inge

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

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
-Albert Einstein