Patriotism Quotes - Page 9

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, What Is Love

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

  Frank Knox

  Memorial Day, Fire, Purpose

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• A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

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• Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Civil Rights, Right To Bear Arms

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Patriotic, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1903). “Essays and Letters /by Leo Tolstoy ; Translated by Aylmer Maude”

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• 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

  George Farquhar

  Country, Should

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2

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• The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

  Homer

  Country, Fighting

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• Strike-for your altars and your fires;
  Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
  God-and your native land!

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Fire, Land, Green

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.11

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• A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Mind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• Patria est communis omnium parens.
  Our country is the common parent of all.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Parent, Common

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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  John Gunther

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Men, Honor

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• It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

  Homer

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Greatness, Want

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

  Rufus Choate

  Party, Doe, Flags

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.201

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• I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

  John J. Crittenden

  Country

  In Congress, when President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor, May, 1846.

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• Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Self, Hands

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• And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!

  Robert Stephen Hawker

  Men, Reason Why, Thirty

  "Song: Cornish patriotic song". 1824.

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• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

  Bob Dylan

  Beauty, Should, Dylan

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

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• If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Tired, Needs, Vote

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• If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Names, France, England

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Land, Feet

  Notebook, 26 May 1896

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• The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

  George Meredith

  War, Ego, Cry

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4025, Library of Alexandria

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• I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

  Ai Weiwei

  Hands, People, China

  "Ai Weiwei says blind dissident's escape will inspire Chinese" by Sui-Lee Wee, www.reuters.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Patriotism is the religion of hell.

  James Branch Cabell

  Religion, Hell

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