Patriotism Quotes - Page 6

• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

  David Hume

  Army, Government, Arbitrary

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Journal, 10 Dec. 1824

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• Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

  H. G. Wells

  Cheer, Self, Flags

  "The Future in America: A Search After Realities". Book by H. G. Wells, 1906.

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Peace

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Talking

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• I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Liberty, Dies

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, World

  'The Liberator' 15 December 1837 Prospectus

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• "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Europe, Two, Borders

  Robert Anton Wilson (1982). “The Earth Will Shake: A Novel”, J P Tarcher

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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Fool, Patriot

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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• What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

  Francis John McConnell

  Destiny, Self, Ideas

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• Patriotism ruins history.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Honesty, Ruins

  Conversation with Friedrich Wilhem Riemer, July 1817.

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• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Sacrifice, Uganda

  Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
  [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]

  Ovid

  Land, Forget, Charm

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• Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

  Walter Scott

  Patriotic, Country Love, Men

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

  David McCullough

  Country, Patriotic, Revolution Founding Fathers

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Nov 12, 2012

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• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Squares

  Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

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• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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