Patriotism Quotes - Page 5

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

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

I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Laughter is America's most important export.