Patriotism Quotes

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

Highest, Dissent

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Power, Suffering, Wrong

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

Fight, Country, Earth

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Society, Hatred, Nation

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

Real, Often, Principles

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

Religion, Egg, Wars

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana

Soul, Seems, Geography

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

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, Try, Duty

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter

Love, Work, Hate

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell

Enough, Bitterness, Hatred

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
Francis Ford Coppola

Successful, Real, Hard

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Bill Maher

Country, Else, Flaws

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis

Country, America, She

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

Lie, Country, Duty

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger

War, Away, Reaction

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton

Father, Blood, Warm

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lyn Nofziger

Time, Liberty, Blood

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

Hope, Real, Cannot

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume

Power, Road, Tyranny

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura

Knowledge, Loyalty, Feeling

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh

Inspired, Communism

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Men, True, Long

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
George Galloway

Great, Said, Last

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace

Peace, Time, Power

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