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A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
Sep 30, 2025
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
One of the great attractions of patriotism
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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 the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
I have sworn upon the altar of god.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
These are the times that try men's souls.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.