Patriotism Quotes

Never forsake your motherland.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

~ Wallace Stegner

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down

~ Tom Petty

This Land Is Protected By Million’s Blood Bath, If Needed, We’ll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

~ Victor Hugo

Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.

~ Mike Klepper

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Who then shall unravel all these subtle combinations? Who shall trace the exact dividing line that marks off one form of extremism from its opposite? It can be done only by a love of country and a love of truth. Kings and knaves will always try to destroy this love, for they shun reason and truth like the p

~ Maximilien De Robespierre

Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like Patriot. I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and he explained what Patriotism meant to him...It wasn't about blindly supporting your government. It was about knowing what your country could be, what it should be... And trying to lead it there through your example. And holding it accountable when it failed. I remember he said: There's noting patriotic about corruption or cover-ups... or defending them. But exposing them, well, that takes a hero.

~ Ed Brubaker

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

~ Gina Barreca

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny.

~ P. J. Peters

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

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot’s niece, and a dead man’s daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.

~ Katlyn Charlesworth

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second

~ Sunday Adelaja

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

~ Michael Shaara

Gökalp gave the nation an important mystical component. In his work, he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in nation: and so nationalism became a religion. The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that society can do as it pleases. So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist scientific approach gained a sacred character through Gökalp's theories.

~ Taner Akçam

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

~ J. Horace Mcfarland

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

~ Robert A. Caro

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

~ Edward Abbey

PatriotismBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land!' Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'dFrom wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

~ Walter Scott

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

~ Robert E. Lee

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

~ Henry Clay

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

~ Henry Clay

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

~ Ann Medlock

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born, and where he was born didn’t choose him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale.

~ Jonah Goldberg

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

~ G. Edward Griffin

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, you will pay hell to get them back. You will and we're in the process of it right now.

~ Jesse Ventura

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

~ Edward Abbey

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

~ Ronald Reagan