Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot.
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim, and I am a Hindu only by accident of birth.
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Patriotism ruins history.
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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.
Great artists have no country.
The Family is the Country of the heart.
Where liberty dwells there is my country.
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.
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.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
True patriots don't wave flags.
The difference between a rebel and a patriot is wether who is in power.
A real patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
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".
East or West, Home is best.
Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
