Patriotism Quotes - Page 4

Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

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.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

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.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Patriotism ruins history.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

My love for my country is my religion.