| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. |
| Albert Einstein | This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! |
| Alfred Adler | It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country |
| Algernon Sidney | Where liberty is, there is my country |
| Andrew Jackson | Our federal Union: it must be preserved. |
| Bertrand Russell | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
| Byron Webber | Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. |
| Charles De Gaulle | Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. |
| Daniel Decatur Emmett | I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! . . . . Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie. |
| Daniel Webster | I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! |
| Daniel Webster | Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. |
| Daniel Webster | Thank God, I--I also--am an American! |
| David Lloyd George | Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is the mainspring of patriotism. |
| Edith Louisa Cavell | I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. |
| Edward Abbey | A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. |
| Felix Adler | Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. |
| G K Chesterton | 'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.' |
| General George S Patton | The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. |
| George Farquhar | '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. |
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