A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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