Patriotism Quotes

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

~ John F. Kerry

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

~ Cory Booker

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

~ Barack Obama

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

~ Charles De Gaulle

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

~ Cory Booker

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.

~ Kim Jong-Un

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

~ Ronald Reagan

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

~ Pablo Casals

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

~ Bruno Bauer

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

~ John F. Kennedy

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

~ Ellen Key

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

~ Lech Walesa

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

~ Patrick Henry

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

~ Frederick Reines

To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.

~ Kim Jong-Un

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

~ Scott Ritter

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.

~ Chesty Puller

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

~ Kjell Magne Bondevik

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

~ George A. Romero

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.

~ George J. Mitchell

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

~ Mark Twain

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

~ Joe Barton

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

~ Donald Trump

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

~ Joe Biden

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

~ Voltaire

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

~ John Thune

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

~ Mike Fitzpatrick

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

~ Taylor Branch

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

~ Michael N. Castle

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

~ Rosa Delauro

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

~ David Hume

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

~ Ronald Reagan

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

~ Marco Rubio

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

~ Jesse Ventura