Patriotism Quotes - Page 8

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.

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

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?