Patriotism Quotes - Page 18

• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

  Ronnie James Dio

  Real, Stupidity, Greed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Groups, Outcast, Seems

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• Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Fighting, Giving

  Letter to Harrison Blake, 26 Sept. 1855

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• The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Noble, Virtue, Liable

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Firsts, Hours

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.31, David M Gross

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• Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fighting, Numbers, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

  Edward Joseph Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Race

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• I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

  Patrick Henry

  Inspirational, Death, Giving

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  The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Humble, Ethnicity, Essence

  "Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan at the Republican convention" by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  Vic Snyder

  Hurt, Views, Majority

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• I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Names, Heroism

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• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  Scott Ritter

  Patriotic, Doe, Flags

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• But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Survival, Persuasion

  "The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy".

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• Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Self, Blood

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• If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Fall, Government

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• Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

  Marshall McLuhan

  Design, Typography, Familiar

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• Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Troops, Pay

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• Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

  John F. Kerry

  Heart, America, Challenges

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Firsts, Affection

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.244, Algora Publishing

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• 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

  Religious, Sweet, Sight

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• Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Cutting, Innocent Person, Different

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• We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Effort, Battle

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2012.

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