Patriotism Quotes

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.

Charles C. Pinckney

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

José Ortega y Gasset

There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

Frank Underhill

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

William Faulkner

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

Daniel D. Emmett

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.

Charles C. Pinckney

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

José Ortega y Gasset

There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

Frank Underhill

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

William Faulkner

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.

Daniel D. Emmett

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

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

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

George Washington

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation, we're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for a thousand years.

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