3 December 2020 Nick Lampson But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
3 December 2020 Michael Ignatieff There’s intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
3 December 2020 Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
3 December 2020 Cory Booker When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn’t class warfare – it’s patriotism.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
3 December 2020 Robert Reich True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
3 December 2020 Richard Ford America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people’s rights and their sense of patriotism.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
3 December 2020 Jane Addams Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
3 December 2020 George Borrow Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
3 December 2020 Bernadine Dohrn The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
3 December 2020 Greil Marcus Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
3 December 2020 Pablo Casals The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
3 December 2020 John Amery It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Dale Carnegie Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
