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In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Americanism Immigration Patriotism Xenophobia

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

~ H.l. Mencken

H.l. Mencken Activist Patriotism

My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Patriotism Wit

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

~ Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman Arrogance Emma Goldman Patriotism Superstition

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

~ Banksy

Banksy Chauvinism Flags Nationalism Patriotism

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the Pe

~ Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs Deception Exploitation Fundamentalism Oppression Patriotism Religion Tyranny

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich Activism Dissent Patriotism Protest Truth Telling

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Patriotism Volunteer Volunteering Volunteerism

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Patriotism

How long have you been away from the country? Laruja asked Ibarra.Almost seven years.Then you have probably forgotten all about it.Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.

~ José Rizal

José Rizal Country Countrymen Nationalism Patriotism

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

~ Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Ashamed Patriotism Proud

How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Patriotism

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Civic Duty Dissent Patriotism Patriots Protest

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Patriotism

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk Inferiority Patriotism Superiority

Patriotism is a kind of religion, it is the egg from which wars are hat

~ Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant Extremism Fanaticism Patriotism Religion Wars

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?

~ Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif Egypt Patriotism

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

~ Jimmy Stewart

Jimmy Stewart Actor Patriotism

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways

~ Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif Egypt Patriotism

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

~ Walter Scott

Walter Scott Patriotic Patriotism

Many confuse the United States with the Church or the Constitution with the Bible. They feel that the good of the United States is the same as the good of the Kingdom of God. Some feel that the Constitution of the United States is as infallible as the Bible. However, one with wisdom notice that some things are Kingdom principles and some are not.

~ Gayle D. Erwin

Gayle D. Erwin Kingdom Of God Patriotism

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

~ Don Delillo

Don Delillo Patriotism

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

~ Visar Zhiti

Visar Zhiti Countyr Nationalism Oppression Patriotism Tyranny

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

~ Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale Inspirational Patriotism

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

~ Rebecca West

Rebecca West Conformism Dissent Oppositionism Patriotism

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism.Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

~ Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell Patriotism Snark

Jazz is democracy in music.

~ Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis Artistic Patriotism Social Commentary

Moreover, there was what Amy called “the cocksuckers’ contingent of the country”—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.

~ John Irving

John Irving Patriotism

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

~ Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini Country Love Patriotism

Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.

~ Geert Van Istendael

Geert Van Istendael Belgium Patriotism

I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan Kabul Patriotism

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

~ Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger Anarch Chivalry Ernst Jünger Martyrdom Patriotism Self Distancing

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

~ Tao Lin

Tao Lin Patriotism

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Class Struggle Internationalism Patriotism

You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Patriotism

It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the subjection of women, child labor, segregation. The Endangered Species Act is a zero-tolerance law: no new extinctions. It keeps eyes on the ground with legal backing-the gun may be in the holster most of the time, but its available if necessary to keep species from disappearing. I discovered in my travels that a law protecting all animals and plants, all of nature, might be as revolutionary-and as American-as the Declaration of Independence.

~ Joe Roman

Joe Roman American Endangered Species Act Patriotism Protection Wildlife

[Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.

~ Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera Czechoslovakia Patriotism

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man, with his mouth.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Patriotism Pseudopatriotism

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime ministership. In the succeeding five years, Labor inaugurated the National Health Service, the first and boldest experiment in socialized medicine. It took into public ownership all the vital (and bankrupted) utilities of the coal, gas, electricity and railway industries. It even nibbled at the fiefdoms and baronies of private steel, air transport and trucking. It negotiated the long overdue independence of India. It did all this, in a country bled white by the World War and subject to all manner of unpopular rationing and controls, without losing a single midterm by-election (a standard not equaled by any government of any party since). And it was returned to office at the end of a crowded term.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Britain British People Clement Attlee Elections India Indian Independence Act 1947 Indian Independence Movement Labour Party Uk National Health Service Patriotism Prime Minister Of The Uk Rationing In The United Kingdom Socialised Medicine Toyrism Uk General Election 1945 United Kingdom Welfare State Winston Churchill World War Ii

The Pledge of Allegiance (1892) was the origin of the raised arm salute adopted later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). The Pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin to Edward Bellamy (the author), and both were self-proclaimed national socialists in the United States. The original Pledge began with a military salute that was then extended out toward the flag. In practice, the second gesture was performed palm down. The gesture was not an ancient Roman salute. All of these are discoveries of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry (author of Pledge of Allegiance Secrets).

~ John Thomas Nall

John Thomas Nall Flags Gestures Militarism Patriotism Roman Salute Schools Symbologist Usa
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