Top Patriotism Quotes

It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for...

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Patriotism Definition

(n.) Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

One of the things we haven’t taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven’t told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them....

In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now.

Avarice is patriotic!

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

The sectarian divisions which plagued Marxism are manifestations of an urge for purity which the Left would be better off without.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has had several strong drinks. He goes on to say that it was Wilson wh...

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Patriotism is the product of successful systematic indoctrination.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are...

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.