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Category: Patriotism

1. "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Justice

2. "Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

3. "Patriotism ruins history."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: History and Nations

4. "A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."

Mikhail Glinka

Quotations about: Art and Culture

5. "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Edmund Burke

6. "A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."

Giuseppe Mazzini

7. "Great artists have no country."

Alfred de Musset

Quotations about: Art and Culture

8. "The Family is the Country of the heart."

Giuseppe Mazzini

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

9. "Where liberty dwells there is my country."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

10. "God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother."

Giuseppe Mazzini

Quotations about: Human

11. "Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras"

12. "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

13. "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

14. "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Gore Vidal

Quotations about: History and Nations

15. "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

George Jean Nathan

16. "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Scottish proverb

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Freedom and Servitude

17. "No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."

William Cowper

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

18. "True patriots don't wave flags."

Michael D. Perry

19. "The difference between a rebel and a patriot is wether who is in power."

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20. "A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."

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21. "Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. "

Richard Aldington, "Colonel's Daughter"

22. "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

23. "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.""

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defendant"

24. "East or West, Home is best."

English proverb

25. "Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

26. "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Authority, Government

27. "Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

Guy de Maupassant

28. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Authority, Government

29. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

30. "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell

31. "Our true nationality is mankind."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Human

32. "Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it."

George Bernard Shaw

33. "We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing."

John Paul II

34. "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

Clarence Darrow

35. "Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: History and Nations

36. "The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate


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