Patriotism Quotes - Page 4

• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Military, Patriotic

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

  Allen Sapp

  Country, Feel Good, Pheasants

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Nurse, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

  O. Henry

  Art, Food, Family Love

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.218, 谷月社

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• In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Home, Sunset

  Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis, November 5, 1994.

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• And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Home, Patriotic

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

  Thomas Eakins

  Art, Masters, Strikes

  Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

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• He serves his party best who serves the country best.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Art, Presidential

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.139, e-artnow sro

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• Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Doe, Matter

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

  Henry James

  Home, Patriotic, Thinking

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.86, 谷月社

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

  Voltaire

  Enemy, Mankind, Modern Warfare 2

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.643, e-artnow

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• It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  Bob Riley

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Sacrifice

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.

  Ernest Belfort Bax

  Patriotic, Men, People

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• The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

  Julian Barnes

  Country, Great Patriotic

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• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Selfish, Destiny

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• There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

  George Galloway

  Mean, Blow, People

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• Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Patriotic, Noble, Moral

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
  [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Country, Men, Brave

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• Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, Rights

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.72

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• There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Memorial Day, Military, Compass

  Letter to Boston Commercial Club, 1879.

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• 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

  Support, Criticism, United States

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• Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

  Robert Walpole

  Passion, Gentleman, Deals

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