Patriotism Quotes - Page 23

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  Parker Stevenson

  War, Thinking, People

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• The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Fundamentals, Sanctions, Hush

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• Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

  Evan Bayh

  Country, Military, Should Have

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• If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

  William Kristol

  Fighting, Government, India And Pakistan

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• Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

  Mike Ferguson

  War, Sacrifice, Inspire

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• Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And 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

  Country, War, Home

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

  John Woo

  Friendship, Honor, Film

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• Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Neighbor

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, Soul, Patriot

  Adrienne Rich (2012). “Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory.

  Evita Peron

  Names, People, Victory

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• My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

  Stephen Decatur

  Country, Stills

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• You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

  Wesley Clark

  Voice, People, Needs

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• Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Heart, Men

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• Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

  Mark Twain

  Talking, Humbug, Robbery

  Notebook, 26 May 1896

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• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Matter, Violence, Academic

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• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Ties, Way

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• ... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Hate, Love You

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.532, Penguin

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• There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

  Murray Kempton

  Men, Nations

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

  Jacques Maritain

  Country, Tolerate, Defects

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• The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

  Ovid

  Country, Powerful, Reason

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• Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

  Carolyn Wells

  Sin, Multitudes

  Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”

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• No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Government, People, Safe

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• True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Light, Justice, Way

  Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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