Patriotism Quotes

Modest about our national pride - inordinately proud of our national modesty.

This is my country. This is where I grew up, this is where I started life. This is my country and when I put on my Great Britain vest I'm proud. I'm very proud.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.


Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.


Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country will do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

The people's flag is deepest red;
It shrouded oft our martyred dead.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that, while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set;
God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

True patriots we; for be it understood,
We left our country for our country's good.

A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.

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

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'