Patriotism Quotes
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Our federal Union: it must be preserved. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
Liberty, equality, fraternity. (Quote by - Motto)
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. (Quote by - Edith Louisa Cavell)
I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me. (Quote by - Neil Kinnock)
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. (Quote by - John Jordan Crittenden)
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! (Quote by - Walter Scott)
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. (Quote by - Daniel Decatur Emmett)
He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it. (Quote by - John Taylor)
Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise. (Quote by - Terence Joseph McSwiney, M.P.)
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
'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. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
Where liberty is, there is my country. (Quote by - Algernon Sidney)
Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. (Quote by - Robert C. Winthrop)
There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. (Quote by - Seneca)
Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires. God--and your native land! (Quote by - Fitz-Greene Halleck)
And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
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. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Thank God, I--I also--am an American! (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
The whole earth is the brave man's country. (Quote by - Ovid)
Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. (Quote by - Samuel James Arnold)
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! (Quote by - Carl (Karl) Schurz)
Father of his country. (Quote by - Juvenal)
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. (Quote by - Rufus Choate)
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
I am not a Virginian but an American. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. (Quote by - Ovid)
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! (Quote by - Stephen Decatur)
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. (Quote by - George Santayana)
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never! (Quote by - William Pitt, Earl of Chatham)
A savior of the silver-coasted isle. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Our true nationality is mankind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
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. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. (Quote by - Byron Webber)
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Quote by - Nathan Hale)
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. (Quote by - Silvio Pellico)
Our country is the common parent of all. (Quote by - Cicero)
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal. (Quote by - George Barrington)
Our country is the world--our countrymen are all mankind. (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life. (Quote by - Rev. E.J. Young)
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why! (Quote by - Robert Stephen Hawker)
He serves me most who serves his country best. (Quote by - Homer)
The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? (Quote by - Homer)
Our country is wherever we are well off. (Quote by - Cicero)
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. (Quote by - H.G. Wells)
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Quote by - Plutarch)
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. (Quote by - Robert C. Winthrop)
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. (Quote by - Jesse Ventura)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. (Quote by - Charles Fitzgeffrey)
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion. (Quote by - John Dalberg Acton)
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. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
And for our country 'tis a bliss to die. (Quote by - Homer)
He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Quote by - Rutherford Birchard Hayes)
Put none but Americans on guard tonight. (Quote by - Jesse Ventura)
Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. (Quote by - Silvio Pellico)
My country is the world, and my religion to do good. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
'Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear The living degradation we may know If we do dread death for a sacred cause? (Quote by - Terence Joseph McSwiney)
