Patriotism Quotes, Patriotic Sayings
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
- Voltaire
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken
A symbol of red and white with fifty shining stars on a field of blue,call it a flag,in reality it is you.
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
- Yiddish
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
- Jewish
With the tears a Land hath shed, Their graves should ever be green.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every heart beats true ‘neath the Red, White and Blue.
- George M. Cohan
The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.
- Mary C. Crowley
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
- Gary Hart
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
- Charles Dickens
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of PowerThen will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William Ewart Gladstone
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation.
- David Lloyd George
Iraq is an unjust war.
- Jimmy Carter
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
The only real nation is humanity.
- Paul Farmer
Patriotism ruins history.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I think patriotism is like charity it begins at home.
- Henry James
An Eagle can’t fly on just a right wing.
- Knightroar
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
I will fight for my country but I will not lie for her.
- Zora Neale Hurston
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
- Richard Aldington
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
- Buddha
My Country! When right keep it right; when wrong, set it right!
- Carl Schurz
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
- Bob Riley
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- Proverb
A politician will do anything to keep his job — even become a patriot.
- William Randolph Hearst
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
- Dale Carnegie
Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.
- Sallust
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
- Sinclair Lewis
A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
- Mark Twain


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