Patriotism Quotes - Page 2

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

All true patriots will meet in heaven.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

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.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

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.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.