Patriotism Quotes - Page 3

• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

  Luis Bunuel

  God, Teamwork, Country

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.153, Random House

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• For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Attitude, Language, Form

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• The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Dream, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

  Max Lerner

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Ideas

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• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Jail

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Brother, Book

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Patriotic, Progress

  Jane Addams (2007). “Newer Ideals of Peace”

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• 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

  Country, Memorial Day, Hero

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• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving Forward, Immature

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• The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Strong, Brother

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

  Mark Twain

  Patriotic, Honor, Liberty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

  Walter Scott

  Fighting, Land, Coward

  Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart (1839). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Comprising Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ...”, p.408

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• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

  Francois Fenelon

  Brother, War, Hippie

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• Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Country, Peace

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.68, Open Road Media

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• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

  William Shenstone

  Love, Country, Mean

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111

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• True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Desire, Doe

  Letter to General P.G.T. Beauregard, October 03, 1865.

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Stars, Patriotic

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• It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Inspired, Communism, Nationalism

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

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Mean, World, Bears

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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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