3 December 2020 Jonathan Mayhew There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
3 December 2020 Henry Steele Commager Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
3 December 2020 William Shenstone The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
3 December 2020 Michael Ignatieff Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
3 December 2020 George Galloway There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
3 December 2020 Francois Hollande We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Granholm If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
3 December 2020 George Santayana To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
3 December 2020 Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
3 December 2020 Ronnie James Dio The music industry’s actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn’t it?
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
3 December 2020 Thomas E. Mann But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
3 December 2020 Bill Kristol Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
3 December 2020 Herbert Croly The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
3 December 2020 Prescott Bush It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else’s?
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
3 December 2020 Ted Cruz Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Vaughan A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
3 December 2020 Ann Coulter 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.
3 December 2020 Lyn Nofziger The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola 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.
3 December 2020 John Sergeant Wise In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
3 December 2020 Mike Ferguson Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
