Patriotism Quotes - Page 7

• Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”

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• We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

  Indira Gandhi

  Honor, Sells

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• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  4th Of July, Mean, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, War, Men

  Cavalry Journal, September 1933.

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• It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  J. Horace McFarland

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Belief, Spontaneous, Preference

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.7188, e-artnow

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• The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, People, Flags

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• In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, 4th Of July

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Son, Men, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.

  Herman Melville

  Political, Intellectual, Together

  "Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War". Book by Herman Melville, 1860.

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• What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.208, Ohio State University Press

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• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

  Henry Clay

  East, West, Stewardship

  Speech in the Senate (1848)

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• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

  Emma Goldman

  Training, Principles, Wholesale

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Thinking, Mexican

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• Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

  Gustave Herve

  Superstitions, Brutal, Inhumane

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• Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Community, Looks

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• It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.

  Shary Boyle

  Independent, Eye, People

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• You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Feelings, Stronger

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• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Government, Virginia, Years

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.68, Anza Publishing

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• I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Film, Embarrassed

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Talking, Ideas

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• I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Military, Fall, Passion

  "Freed Myanmar Activist: Fight For Human Rights Continues". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 15, 2010.

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• I want to light the lights of patriotism.

  Lech Walesa

  Light, Want

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• There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Memorial Day, America, Feelings

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• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  Ralph Bunche

  Dream, Country, Fighting

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